TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



I could get him in quite easily. The first thing I did 

 was to take the rope off the shank, then to choke the 

 shank so that it would not pull tightly and cut the 

 jaw, and so that it zvould pull on the poll piece. I 

 walked quietly forward towards the tent (as I had 

 led him away so as to make the alterations without 

 being seen), and the colt followed me quietly in, 

 amidst a round of applause, and on all sides I could 

 hear, "What wonderful power over a horse the Professor 

 possesses." I said, " No, gentlemen, only a little common 

 sense, and knoiving Jioiv to use it ! " 



I might give another instance of how vice 

 is created in a colt through a wrong step taken at 

 first, that is, by meeting the colt and fighting it with the 

 same weapons as it employs against you — viz., physical 

 force versus the brute's strength, thinking that a 

 wild brute can be tamed by savage means. 



The colt was one that was brought to me at Cold- 

 stream — it had been rendered dangerous to approach, 

 and had already kicked three of its owner's ribs in. 

 The message delivered with the colt was this — " Look 

 out, he is a perfect demon !" and a demon he was. I 

 replied, " Thank you for the warning," for I have 

 frequently had dangerous beasts to handle, and the 

 owners had not given me any caution at all, a mean 

 and despicable act, which I did not forget to tell 

 them of publicly. He just rushed at me, and struck 

 out as straight as any man could, frequently striking 



