TAMING HORSES. 123 



Horses," page 17, tells us how to accustom a horse 

 to a robe, by administering certain articles to his 

 nose; and goes on to say that these articles must 

 first be applied to the horse's nose before you 

 attempt to break him, in order to operate success- 

 fully. 



Now, reader, can you, or any one else, give one 

 single reason how scent can convey any idea to the 

 horse's mind of what we want him to do ? If not, 

 then of course strong scents of any kind are of no 

 avail in taming the unbroken horse. For, every- 

 thing that we get him to do of his own accord, 

 without force, must be accomplished by some means 

 of conveying our ideas to his mind. I say to my 

 horse, " Go-'long ! " and he goes. " Ho ! " and he 

 stops ; because these two words, of which he has 

 learned the meaning by the tap of the whip and 

 the pull of the rein that first accompanied them, 

 convey the two ideas to his mind of go and stop. 



Neither Faucher, nor any one else, can ever 

 teach the horse a single thing by the means of 

 scent alone. 



How long do you suppose a horse would have to 

 stand and smell a bottle of oil before he would 

 learn to bend his knee and make a bow at your 

 bidding, "Go yonder and bring your hat," or 

 "Come here and lie down"? Thus you see the 

 absui'dity of trying to break or tame the horse by 



