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name of humanity and common-sense, discard all 

 punishment and brutality. Put yourself in his place ; 

 descend from your lofty pedestal of superiority, and 

 teach your horses by love and kindness instead of 

 hard blows, and let them have a playing time as well 

 as a working time. You will find it answer in the 

 long-run. 



There is one more thing I must say, and trust 

 to impress upon all my readers, and that is this : 

 When a horse does wrong and needs punishment, 

 administer the dose at once. Whip him at the time 

 of wrong-doing ; never let it pass because you are 

 afraid someone will see you or because your em- 

 ployer is with you, and then when you get the horse 

 in the stable start knocking him about. A man who 

 does that deserves far more punishment than the 

 horse. You may remember the fault committed, but 

 he does not, and cannot for the life of him imagine 

 why he should be so brutally ill-treated. 



There are many forms of cruelty practised on 

 horses both in and out of the stable, and owners 

 cannot be too careful in watching short-tempered 

 and brutal stablemen and grooms. Out with them, 

 as you would with a venomous reptile ! They are 

 just as mischievous, spoiling your horses and causing 

 others to suffer for vices so produced. 



CHAPTER VIII 



THE BEARING-REIN AND HAME-REIN 



How often people say, when their attention is drawn 

 to any special subject or object, ' Oh yes ; of course ! 

 I see it now ; but until you drew my attention to it 

 I really never noticed it.' Well, I want to draw 

 your attention now very forcibly to the useless and 



