FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE 



blowing paper, for instance, is synonymous with a 

 sound thrashing and a badly hurt mouth. There- 

 fore when next he meets this disconcerting object 

 he proceeds to turn round, to upset the buggy, 

 and to escape at all hazard from the vicinity of the 

 object which has been to him accompanied by 

 much physical distress. Remember that if he is 

 troubled by this so-called vice — which it never 

 is — his^ one-idead mind is perhaps to blame ; 

 or his eyes may be wrong (he may be as near- 

 sighted as any of us) ; or the alarming sights may 

 be strange to him, needing only thorough famil- 

 iarizing to be disregarded ; or perhaps he may 

 be playing the fool from sheer light-heartedness, 

 and if so, to be circumvented by taking him 

 sharply in hand, " shaking him up," and pulling 

 him together as the awesome spectacle is passed. 

 Fear of any particular object is almost invari- 

 ably a token that at some previous time, and in 

 some other hands, serious fright or injury has been 

 associated with it, and if this seems to be the case 

 the utmost patience is called for in your treat- 

 ment of the timid, apprehensive creature. 



While you must punish at times, and teach 

 the pupil that this will invariably follow wilful 

 rebellion, your caresses must as regularly, and even 



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