14 PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



Another case in point : "While travelling through Wisconsin, I 

 visited a small village., and while there, sitting in the hotel, some 

 gentlemen came in who had been to a funeral. In conversation 

 with them I learned that the deceased, whose funeral they had 

 attended, had been killed by his horses having ran away with 

 him. I inquired into the particulars concerning his death, with 

 this result : 



On Decoration Day, when the military and citizens turned out 

 to do honor and show their respect for the dead soldiers, by 

 decorating their graves with beautiful flowers, the deceased, with 

 his family, in a two-horse wagon, started for town. One of his 

 daughters raised a parasol. The horse looked back and saw it. 

 He took fright and ran away, throwing the deceased and his 

 family out, killing him almost instantly and crippling several of 

 the family. 



While I was journeying through North Carolina, a very 

 eminent physician was killed by his horse throwing him out of 

 the buggy, when going down hill to the ferry-boat. The breech- 

 ing-strap accidently broke. This, of course, let the cross-bar of 

 the shafts come up against him, and the touch frightened him 

 and caused him to run away with the above result. 



When passing through the State of Pennsylvania another 

 accident of this kind was brought to my notice, that occurred in 

 Reading. A lady's horse, that was considered perfectly quiet and 

 gentle, took fright at the smell of a slaughter-house, ran away 

 and almost killed the lady. 



The examples of serious accidents I have given tend to show 

 the importance of educating the different senses of the horse so 

 that such accidents may be prevented. The sense of sight 

 should be first attended to, that the animal may become familiar 

 with all objects that may come within his vision, and nothing will 

 then frighten him, be it steamboats, cars, odd-looking objects, or 

 buffalo robe, etc. 



