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At first he will break away, and then 

 retribution must be immediate, so that he 

 associates the very act of turning away 

 with a blow. I take it that about eight 

 or ten such divergences from the path of 

 duty are the very most an ordinary horse 

 will attempt. 



Curiously enough, the more alarmed a 

 horse is for the whip, the more quickly 

 he can be taught to obey. It seems to 

 become his fetish or god, and he cannot 

 take his eye off it. This method has 

 no tendency to make a horse vicious. 



I was staying at a farmhouse this 

 summer with a colt I had trained in this 

 way. The farmer would not believe me 

 when 1 assured him the animal was follow- 

 ing not me^ but the whip. I offered to 



