TO THE READER. 



hundreds of instances that it can be as thoroughly 

 and effectually done in as many days as it heretofore 

 took weeks, and this without any abuse. No ill- 

 treatment is resorted to, and there is no chance of 

 injury to the animal. I simply act on a correct 

 knowledge of those natural laws by which the horse 

 governs its own actions. Horses' temperaments vary 

 equally as much as those of human beings, and the 

 old mode of treatment, while being completely effective 

 with one kind, may be just as incomplete with another, 

 simply because to a certain extent, indeed I might say 

 to an unlimited extent, coercion is used instead of 

 kindness and firmness. I don't make my colts afraid 

 of me — I make them trust me — consequently I gain 

 their confidence and obedience at one and the same 

 time, and once broken in they are broken and tractable 

 for good and all. providing, of course, that the manager 

 is efficient. No more jibbing, buck-jumping, bolting, 

 or shying, but a good animal, a pleasure to ride or 

 drive, and equally as impervious to the noise of railway 

 trains as discordant brass bands, and all the result of 

 a system of kindness and a combination of " science 

 and humanity," instead of that of " ignorance and 

 barbarity." If you have a nervous colt to train, why 

 render it more nervous by whipping it past an object 

 that terrifies it? Why not rather educate it to know 

 that the thing it thinks so formidable is perfectly 

 harmless, and so with a little patience reassure the 



