174 EDUCATING THE HORSE. 



he believes himself to be drowning, and will 

 extricate himself with all speed. 



Simple as is this expedient, it is yet unfailing 

 in its efficacy ; and that which most commends it 

 to the acceptance of kind-hearted men is the 

 absence of all cruelty in its application. No 

 pain is caused, but the unusual sensation, to- 

 gether with the necessity for air on the part of 

 the horse, banishes his former feeling of sulki- 

 ness or anger and he yields to the almost irre- 

 sistible impulse to spring to his feet and free 

 his nostrils of the water. 



If any one who has never applied this remedy 

 should doubt its power, he only needs to try the 

 experiment in a mild way on himself, when he 

 will realize its power upon the horse. 



I believe it would be impossible to devise 

 another method so free from pain, so harmless 

 to the horse, and yet so thoroughly efficacious as 

 is the one we have here given. 



