THE HORSE'S EDUCATION 



after the animal is thus trained, it is not easy to 

 find the man who is similarly qualified to use him. 

 The rudiments of behavior are therefore sufficient 

 for the average owner, and further advance is 

 not practical. If the animal knows his A. B. C.'s 

 thoroughly, that is a lot more than can be said 

 of the majority of them, and we should be grate- 

 ful for that. Every accomplishment may be 

 taught him " hind-side before " if you like, and 

 a pull to the right may mean turn to the left, as 

 it does when the "jerk line " of the southern 

 four or six mule team is pulled, and thus we see 

 most of our equestrians conveying their wishes 

 to their saddle-backs, by exactly wrong signals 

 which nevertheless these patient creatures have 

 learnt to construe as meaning exactly what they 

 do not say ! If awkward blundering will effect 

 such results, what may not intelligent effort 

 attain ? 



That latter-day Juggernaut, the noisy and 

 noisome automobile, has, as was the case when 

 the bicycle first appeared, excited much appre- 

 hension, and caused prophecies that driving and 

 riding would shortly become impossible. As 

 was the case with the bicycle, however, this " bug- 

 aboo " will lose its terrors as it becomes more 



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