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coming towards or overtaking him. A tilted wagon or 

 a stage-coach were such objects of dread as no power 

 could get him to face. " We knew it would be in vain 

 to oppose human physical force to brute fears, and that 

 it was only by introducing favorable recollections 

 derived from those very objects, greater in degree than 

 the fears hitherto entertained of them, that we could 

 conquer this dangerous propensity. We began by 

 leading the horse, previously exercised and fasted, 

 towards a cart filled with clover hay ; the smell of the 

 hay was irresistible, and soon dissipated all dread of 

 the stationary cart ; but when it was purposely moved 

 gently onwards, he became rather discomposed ; a lit- 

 tle coaxing, however, induced him to follow it, and we 

 had the pleasure, at this his first lesson, of seeing him 

 proceed confidently with the cart round a farm-yard, 

 and finally into the road. To vary the effect, after he 

 had steadily walked by the side of the carriage a cer- 

 tain time, we restrained him so that it got ahead of 

 him ; when he again reached it, slight indications of 

 fear appeared, as he had to make his way up to the 

 side of the cart, for we had a coverlet purposely drawn 

 over the back that he might not reach the hay from be- 

 hind. We next passed the cart altogether, but it was 

 a few paces only, and then turned him round to the 

 other side of it ; but his whole mind was so intent on 

 the clover, that with the most trifling symptoms only 

 of alarm, he fell to again on the hay, which finished 

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