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he will become attached to his master. The dullest hor-e 

 knows the meaning of a kick or a bite, when he deals either 

 of these out to the person nearest him, and he is less likely 

 to kick his friend than his enemy. One of the Arab 

 maxims is permit your colt to live with you, having acce-s 

 to your tent from his tender age. When grown he will be 

 faithful, and will take pleasure in doing your bidding, 

 through hardship, fatigue, and privation. Without educa- 

 tion the horse is crude in the manner of giving his work 

 to his master, yet, after the manner of a mere brute, he 

 may be to a degree faithful. When properly educated, he is 

 much mere than this, he is automatic, self-propelling, self- 

 sustaining, while yet studiously holding all his powers in 

 reserve for the word of command. As the mind of the horse 

 gets in fuller sympathy with the mind of the man, as it should 

 and will, provided he be properly educated, although his 

 powers are limited, he will cheerfully go beyond this 

 limit uncomplainingly. If he has native spirit native 

 as inherited from ancestry no education properly directed 

 will take this from him, but will rather add to it. 

 Education, adroitly applied, shows the limit of intelligent 

 manifestations in the average horse to be far ahead of the 

 general belief in such matters, still there are horse owners 

 who act as though the young horse should " rough it," 

 both mentally and physically, until he is old enough to be 

 put to work, without any preparation to meet those sights 

 and sounds that cause runaways, as a rule, and from which 

 most of the serious accidents arise. Now, it is entirely 

 possible to educate the colt in such a manner as to take 

 him out of fear of fright from drums, fire-arms, locomo- 

 tives, paper, or other objects driven towards him by the 

 wind while in the harness. A horse may prove to be 

 physically fit for bodily exertion, while, from his 

 education having been neglected, he is not fit to be 

 trusted in any position were he is liable to be frightened. 

 The safeguard, in his case, is to be harnessed with 

 a mate able to hold him to his proper place. It 

 is no uncommon sight to see country horses when 

 put to work in cities fill this description fully. They 

 may be startled by trifles, fear men in general, and 



