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i\IETH(3r>S OF SUBJECTION. 



FiCr. 16. — Sketch of a noted vicious Horse. 



On the same principle, if a man could catch and hold a 

 horse, or control him as he wished, so as to completely 



prevent his struggling and 

 becoming excited and 

 heated, until the muscles 

 are entirely relaxed and 

 he becomes submissive, 

 and then win his confi- 

 dence by kind treatment, 

 scratching the mane, giv- 

 ing apples, etc., it would 

 be the most efficient kind 

 of subjection. But as 

 there is not power to do 

 this, we must resort to 

 such means or methods of management as will come as near 

 it in princii3le as we can. In doing this, if the horse were 

 given such freedom as 

 to encourage his confi- 

 dence to resist, or his 

 Ijad nature were called 

 out by ignorant, abusive 

 treatment, in like man- 

 ner he Avould, in the fury 

 of his madness, resist 

 with the greatest per- 

 severance, regardless of 

 even the most severe 

 punishment. Then 

 again, the resistance, whatever it may be, is only a symp- 

 tom of the real cause to be overcome, which proceeds from 

 a condition of the brain, or the impression made upon it. 



Fig. 17. — Expression of vicious, bad nature. 



