Third Principles. 51 



nature by which the horse examines an object, and 

 determines upon its innocence or harm. 



A log or stump by the road-side may be, in the im- 

 agination of the horse, some great beast about to 

 pounce upon him ; but after you take him up to it, and 

 let him stand by it a little while, and touch it with his 

 nose, and go through his process of examination, he 

 will not care anything more about it. And the same 

 principle and process will have the same effect with 

 any other object, however frightful in appearance, in 

 which there is no harm. Take a boy that has been 

 ♦•frightened with a false face, or any other object that 

 he could not comprehend at once, but let him take that 

 face or object in his hands, and examine it, and he will 

 not care anything more about it. This is a demonstra- 

 tion of the same principle. jjr* 



"With tins introduction to the principles of my the- 

 ory, I shall next attempt to teach you how to put it 

 into practice, and whatever instructions may follow, 

 you can rely on as having been proven practically by 

 my own experiments. And knowing from experience 

 just what obstacles I have met with in handling bad 

 horses, I shall try to anticipate them for you, and as- 

 sist you in surmounting them, by commencing with 

 the first steps to be taken with the colt, and accom- 

 pany you through the whole task of breaking. 



HOW TO SUCCEED IN GETTING THE COLT FR03I PASTURE. 



Go to the pasture, and walk around tno whole herd 

 quietly, and at such a distance as not to cause them to 

 scare and run. Then approach them very slowly, and 

 if they stick up their heads, and seem to be frightened, 



