8 GENERAL REMARKS AND INFORMATION. 



attendant usually gives the animal's head a good snatch 

 with the rein, and commences scolding at the same time, 

 so that the horse gets to know its driver's sharp voice. 

 What is the result ? Should the rein get caught in the 

 fence, or hung up in any way, or when the animal is 

 in close quarters, and knows it has done wrong, it 

 will run back and sometimes break the reins, or perhaps 

 get its bridle off: the end is — a runaway and smash-up. 

 If it does not do this it often backs into something, 

 and the smash and rattle of the cart so startle the 

 animal that if someone is not near at hand a great deal 

 of mischief is done. I have seen people not only snatch 

 the horse's head but give it a good cut with the whip 

 when it does wrong. This is a most dangerous process. 

 When I have left my horse a little while, and the rein 

 has got caught somewhere, I find a kind word will usually 

 keep the animal as quiet as possible. I have been in 

 dangerous places before now, and perhaps a trace or 

 some part of the harness has given way, but when I have 

 just called out, "Whoa, my boy!" "Whoa, my beauty!" 

 it has stopped my horse or horses at once, and no harm 

 has come of it. Horses should be so trained that in the 

 event of any part of the harness breaking or other 

 accident occurring they will stand still at once. 



Those which I have broken-in (though that is not 

 very many), would come to me if I called them with 

 less than three months' training. I have tried this by 

 taking them out into the middle of a field with a saddle 

 and bridle on and calling to them 



