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horse about to jump a four-foot gate would be sure 

 to jump twice the height, or if going to bite an apple that 

 was two inches in diameter he would open his mouth 

 fourteen inches to receive it. I might enumerate dozens 

 of cases, but I think the above is sufficient to illustrate 

 to the reader that the theory is incorrect. 



The horse has five senses, just like the human being : 

 feeling, seeing, hearing, tasting, and smelling — feeling 

 being the strongest. He feels with his nose or tip end 

 of the upper lip. He examines everything he wishes 

 to understand with the tip end of the upper lip or his 

 nose. For instance, if a horse is afraid of any strange 

 object, he will snort and approach it nervously, but 

 when he carefully draws nearer and nearer you will see 

 him touch it or feel it with his nose. After feeling it 

 a few times he will become satisfied that it is harmless 

 and will not hurt him. He can be trained to allow any 

 object to touch him on any part of the body, but if it is 

 moved quickly about him, operating on the sense of 

 sight, he will become nervous. 



If the object makes a noise, which operates on the 

 sense of hearing, he will again become frightened. There- 

 fore, if you want a horse to understand things thoroughly, 

 you must educate all the senses. If all the senses were 

 educated accidents would not be so numerous. Accustom 



