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ability to force submission lie will yield at once to your commands. 

 I have handled hundreds of horses and made them perfectly sub- 

 missive when I have been very much afraid of them. I have 

 heard men say they never saw a horse they were afraid of. A man 

 that will stand behind a horse and let him kick his head off has 

 not as much sense as the horse. Always use great care and 

 judgment in handling horses like the ones I have alluded to. 



There is another class of horses that are of a nervous and high- 

 strung temperament [see cut No. 11], that will fight and resist 



No. 11. 



every effort to confine :them. While in San Bernardino, Cali- 

 fornia, I came across a horse of this kind. He had been caught 

 up wild, and resisted every effort made to domesticate him. 



When I commenced to handle him in the way and manner I 

 have laid down in the lesson for training the. colt, he acted more 

 like a hyena than a horse. Some of my class said he was crazy, 

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