Preface. 



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In writing this ivovk on The Training and Man- 

 agement OF HoitSKS, the object of the author has been to 

 lessen the barbarity often heedlessly inflicted upon these animals 

 by careless and incapable men. The method of management 

 described in the following chapters — the keynote of which 

 is uniform kindness and patience — ivill be found on appli-_ 

 cation to be thoroughly practical in all its stages. With 

 the exception of the photographs, which are taken from- life, 

 the illustrations have been drawn by the author in order to 

 render the principles of the system more intelligible to readers. 

 Should this ivovk be instrumental, in however small a deovee 

 in alleviating the suffering of horses and at the same time 

 tend to a move scientific derelopment of general horsemanship, 

 its primary object shall have been accomplished. 



The thanks of the author are due to Messrs Vinton S^ 

 Co., Limited, London, through the courtesy of their Editor, 

 for permission to use the articles which appeared in Th:o 

 Live Stock Journal, ^5 well as his indebtedness to them 

 for the use of the blocks; to the Editor of The Land 

 Agents' Record for his kindness in granting a similar 

 privilege; and to Mr A. Thomson, F.S.A., Scot. (Author 

 of " Lauder and Lauderdale,'' &c.) for his painstaking 

 work in reading the proofs. 



J.P.F.B, 

 FuLFORTH, October 1904, 



