THE HORSE'S EDUCATION 



all varieties, — the stenchful, the coughing, the 

 snapping, the chug-chugging, the steaming, the 

 smoking, the rattling, — they all evince some one 

 or all of these enjoyable characteristics, and keep 

 rehearsing him until indifferent to them, apologiz- 

 ing to him for the inconvenience which the dis- 

 eased taste of modern man has forced upon him, 

 and never punishing him for manifesting the 

 alarm which at times overcomes even you at the 

 uproar and confusion which attends the passage 

 of these horrors. 



It is impossible, of course, within the limits of 

 a book to give ways and means, methods and 

 manners, of " educating " the horse to sedately 

 perform all the offices which we require of him, 

 but the fundamental rules are invariably the same, 

 and their results if intelligently applied, are uni- 

 versally satisfactory. A certain amount of" horse 

 sense " is required, and ordinary nerve and temper ; 

 that is all, and every horse which successfully per- 

 forms on track or circus ring, park, road, or rid- 

 ing school, has learned his lesson on these general 

 lines of instruction, which might have been ac- 

 quired so much more quickly, painlessly, and 

 pleasantly, had reward always been intelligible, 

 caress appropriate, and punishment as rare, as 



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