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in strength. ... He mocketh at fear, and is not 

 affrighted." . . . "He swalloweth the ground with 

 fierceness and rage." 



By reason of long domestication, intelligent care 

 and training, the horse has become more tractable and 

 intelligent than he was in the time of Job. While 

 neither men nor horses can inherit an education, they 

 may inherit what is better, the power to acquire it 

 easily and rapidly. The colt, nevertheless, still retains 

 enough courage, strength and fierceness to furnish 

 opportunity for the use of the highest skill and courage 

 in transforming him into the safe, well-trained, efficient 

 horse. The Honorable George Geddes once said that 

 the use of improved farm implements had been such a 

 potent factor in stimulating thought and in giving 

 dexterity to the hand of farm-boys, that, if they had 

 been of no other economic benefit, the education secured 

 through their use would be full compensation for 

 their cost. 



The training of the American boy through the uni- 

 versal presence of the horse and the skill required in 

 his use in operating farm implements and in minister- 

 ing to pleasure may not be a full equivalent for the 

 cost and maintenance of horses, but it is certain that 

 these have been most potent factors in the intellectual 

 development and manual training of the rural popula- 

 tions. 



"The horse, by nature, is far from being an intel- 

 ligent animal. I know this is contrary to the general 

 conceded belief as to the ability of horses to receive 

 education. I use the word 'education 7 in the general 



