Hints on Colt-Breaking, 59 



A good loud whistle is also of use, and 

 beuefits your own lungs at the same time. 

 Apoplectic gentlemen should avoid this ; 

 but then they should avoid colt-breaking 



altogether. 



The whip should be loudly cracked all 

 round him until he stands quite steady, 

 unless you tell him to go on. This is of 

 great importance because, in a crowded 

 thoroughfare, it is very likely that the 

 crack of some one else's whip may startle 

 him, thus making him move forward, 

 when, perhaps, the traftic will not admit 

 of doing so. He should even be accus- 

 tomed to back while the cracking is going 

 on, as, in this way, he learns to regard 

 only direct orders, and to pay no attention 

 to extraneous sounds. 



