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may begin operations by gently cracking a whip while 

 standing a few yards away from him, and may continue to 

 do so, if he expresses impatience or alarm by going round 

 and round, until he pays no attention to the noise made by 

 the whip, although we may crack it all over him. We 

 should gradually shorten the cord which connects his 

 head to his tail, and, at the same time, should continue 

 to approach nearer to him, and to increase the noise of the 



Fig. 77. — Horse tied head and tail. 



cracking of the whip. Out of hundreds of '^ nervous " 

 horses which have passed though my hands, I have never 

 seen a single one which, by this head and tail plan, would 

 not, within an hour at the outside, allow ^^ the whip to be 

 cracked all over him without evincing the slightest fear, 

 even when the connecting cord had been removed from the 

 headstall and tail. While using the whip in the manner 

 described, we should carefully refrain from hitting the 



