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using rather loud and rough sort of language to 

 him, then make him go quietly up into his place 

 in the string with the other colts; and here the 

 hoy should have a constant eye upon him. I 

 have often found this sort of rough treatment 

 answer far better than striking a colt with an 

 ashen plant. I do not, as I have already ob- 

 served, approve of fighting with colts or horses, 

 if it can be avoided ; yet, it may sometimes be 

 necessary to have recourse to blows as a last re- 

 source, to endeavour to get the better of a thick, 

 sulky, ill-disposed colt. 



I have given these precautions to the groom 

 and boy, with a view to put them on their guard 

 with a tricky colt, on his first appearance in the 

 string on the downs. I will now put the groom 

 and boy again on their guard, with respect to 

 colts commencing and going on with their work, 

 as some of them get cunning after having gone up 

 a few gallops. Craving colts, and hearty colts, may 

 occasionally require such correction as I have 

 just noticed; but the flighty irritable colts must 

 never be corrected ; for what, by many, are con- 

 sidered as faults in them, principally arise from 

 their natural timidity ; so that to fight with them 

 would alarm them, and in short spoil them as 



