TEACHING HORSE TO FOLLOW. 367 



Circling steadily at liberty. — After having taught the 

 horse to circle with the long reins, we may fix his head in 

 position by side reins so as to obtain adequate control, and 

 lead him round the ring with a leading rein attached to a 

 cavesson. When we want to make him halt, we should jerk 

 the leading rein so as to make the noseband of the cavesson 

 strike his nose, and should at the same moment biing the 

 point of the lunging whip in front of his face. By dimin- 

 ishing the painful action of the cavesson and by continuing 

 the threatening use of the whip in front of the animal, we 

 shall soon be able to make him halt, rein back or turn, by 

 the whip alone. Having previously taught him to go on 

 by raising the whip behind him, we may, while lunging him 

 with the leading rein and cavesson, make him go forward, 

 vary his pace, or halt, by merely altering the position of 

 the whip. After a few lessons we may dispense with the 

 cavesson and leading rein, and work him " at liberty." 



Teaching a horse to follow. — Besides the whip method 

 (see page 116), we may teach the horse to follow us by the 

 use of the Comanche bridle (see page 141), by making him 

 turn round towards us, first at one side and then on the 

 other, always accompanying the pull of the cord with the 

 words " Come here ! " or some similar expression. Mr. C. G. 

 Frasier taught me this method. 



Handkerchief work. — We may teach a horse to pick 

 up a handkerchief by, while standing at his side, pricking 

 him on the ribs with a pin or pinching him so as to make 

 him turn round and snap, and, consequently, to seize with 



