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passing, it is small wonder if he is terrified; but this 

 will wear off as he becomes accustomed to the sight and 

 noise of a train. It is the same with other things, such 

 as motors, d:c. I remember one horse I owned used to 

 be greatly alarmed at the sight of a man wheeling a 

 barrow or handcart. If he couldn't bolt away, he would 

 stand and shiver all over, snorting loudly the while. I 

 cured him in a week bv the simple expedient of having 

 his feeds of corn wheeled into and about his loose box 

 on a barrow, making a fuss of him, of course, while it 

 was being done, and then leaving him to eat his feed 

 from the barrow, which he quickly learned to do. This 

 horse had, however, no defect of eyesight, and as he was 

 an "aged" animal (i.e., eight off) he must, I imagine, have 

 suffered some ill-treatment with which a man and a 

 barrow were identified in his mind. In cases where the 

 shying arises from defective vision, it is not usuallv 

 of a ver}^ serious nature, by which I mean that the 

 animal collects liimself much more quicklv than does the 

 youngster who shies at something he has never seen 

 before. On the other hand, a horse which has become 

 so afflicted will always be liable to shy, simply because 

 hitherto familiar objects momentarilv assume unfamiliar 

 shapes. 



But of all vices, I am inclined to regard confirmed 

 rearing as the worst, and not altogether because I have 



