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manageable. I now took him outside tiie city to know 

 definitely what he would bear in the street. Upon careful 

 trial he proved entirely manageable, when I drove him back. 

 I now trained him to stop, turn right and left, to the mo- 

 tion of the whip, continuing the lesson about ten minutes, 

 resting as long, then repeating until he would turn right 

 and left as desired. I employed every spare moment in 

 this way up to 12 o'clock, when I hitched him up without 

 reins, letting shafts go against the quarters, etc., and drove 

 to the square, where there was a large crowd, and proved 



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Fig. 169.— An incident of the Malone Horse. Result of an effort 

 by a horse-breaker to drive hini. 



him perfectly gentle. For several days, each time, before 

 hitching up, I tested him by running the shafts against his 

 quarters, to remind him of his lesson ; otherwise he was 

 treated with great care and kindness, being quieted down 

 by petting, giving apples, etc. I explained to the class 

 that, in the management of this and all other cases of like 

 character, it would be necessary, after a spell of idleness, 

 to remind of the lesson by a slight repetition of treatment. 

 I sold the horse to a leading horseman, A. S. Robins, 

 who had been a member of the class, and who had wit- 

 nessed all the details of the treatment. I especially ex- 

 plained to him the necessity for this case. Upon my leav- 



