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him. It is not suflicient that the horse should bear these 

 tests when not excited, but they should be borne under 

 the most severe trials, to give assurance of perfect safety. 



Certainly if a horse will not bear these tests, no mat^ 

 ter how fine and good he may be in other respects, he 

 should be rejected for such use. 



The better to show the liability to failure in consequence 

 of the want of judgment in carrying out the treatment 

 properly, by persons having even the best of experience, I 

 will refer to a few cases in point : — 



While in New York City, a gentleman brought me a 

 Kentucky mare that had resisted every effort to break. 

 The last time, hitched to a sulky, she ran aAvay, and was 

 lost forty-eight hours. I took her in hand, and subjected 

 her carefully to the Second Method, and succeeded in 

 about fifteen minutes in driving her in the ring without 

 difficulty. But knowing that to fix the impression of being 

 entirely fearless of the shafts, etc., would require consider- 

 able driving, I directed one of my men who had assisted 

 me for years, and who, so far as experience was concerned, 

 should have been far more than ordinarily successful in the 

 management of such cases, to take her in hand and work 

 her carefully during my absence. I particularly cautioned 

 him in regard to her extremely sensitive and positive 

 character, and that he must be very careful not to get her 

 excited and to fighting him, and left, supposing he would 

 do as I directed. But to my surprise, on my return in the 

 evening, I found the colt seriously injured from the abuse 

 of exceptionally severe treatment. By carelessness, he got 

 her excited and to fighting him, when he subjected her to 

 the Third and other methods, carrying the treatment to the 

 extreme of abuse. 



The injury, however, was only superficial. In a few 

 weeks, when well, in the presence of the owner, to whom 



