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use the whip cruelly, but merely as a medium of 

 conveying to him your instructions. Click witJioiit the 

 whip, and as soon as he readily moves to the command 

 of the voice only, you then know he has learned his 

 first lesson in odedience. 



Now comes the handling process. As I said in the 

 commencement of this work, it is one of the natural 

 laws of a horse to remove any object that may annoy 

 it; therefore, it kicks at anything touching behind, 

 proving at once that a system of education of 

 the sense of feeling would be both beneficial to 

 the animal and to those who ride behind it, and 

 that it must render it much safer to use with the 

 desire to kick eradicated, than with that desire still 

 implanted in the animal. 



Take a " third hand " and approach the colt, while he 

 is in " Galvayning " position, and let him put his nose 

 upon it. Then pass it quietly over his head, down his 

 neck and back, along his back, down his quarters on 

 his hocks, down his front legs: he is sure to become 

 excited, and perhaps kick at it, and try to run away; 

 but if he does, he is there all the time, for he only 

 turns round and round, and the "third hand" is never off 

 him. You carry out this mode of handling, until all fear 

 of the"third hand "touching him is gone(seeplateNo. 5). 



Then take an empty sack and put it upon the end 

 of the " third hand," and hold it to his nose, then by a 

 quick movement throw it on its back from the 



