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always much alarmed at a passing carriage, whether 

 it was coming towards or overtaking him. A tilted 

 wagon or a stage-coach were such objects of dread as 

 no power could get him to face. " We knew it would 

 be in vain to oppose human physical force to brute 

 fears, and that it was only by introducing favourable 

 recollections derived from those very objects, greater 

 in degree than the fears hitherto entertained of them, 

 that we could conquer this dangerous propensity. 

 We began by leading the horse, previously exercised 

 and fasted, towards a cart filled with clover hay : the 

 smell of the hay was irresistible, and soon dissipated 

 all dread of the stationary cart; but when it was 

 purposely moved gently onwards, he became rather 

 discomposed ; a little coaxing, however, induced him 

 to follow it, and we had the pleasure, at this his first 

 lesson, of seeing him proceed confidently with the cart 

 round a farm-yard, and finally into the road. To vary 

 the effect, after he had steadily walked by the side of 

 the carriage a certain time, we restrained him so that 

 it got ahead of him ; when he again reached it, slight 

 indications of fear appeared, as he had to make his 

 way up to the side of the cart, for we had a coverlet 

 purposely drawn over the back, that he might not 

 reach the hay from behind. We next passed the 

 cart altogether, but it was a few paces only, and then 



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