APPENDIX. 



Read first the chapter " Preliminary Hints, etc.," on page 24 ; next 

 the chapter on " Excessive Fear — the Causes of, etc.," page 57. In 

 the school you were taught principles of subduing or taming horses. 

 To aid still further, I include here a few additional hints. 



The great stumbling-block to horsemen is the difference they say 

 there is in horses. What will break one horse easily, will have scarcely 

 any effect upon another, if not, indeed, make them more vicious and 

 unmanageable. As I have shown, this trouble is the result of thought- 

 lessness or ignorance. This duty, above most all others, demands not 

 only a knowledge of principles, but that, at the foundation of a knowl- 

 edge of these principles, there must be firmness, delicacy and patience 

 in feeling your way, when you are not sure of easy and direct success. 

 And, besides, the instances of horses being very vicious and bad are 

 really almost rare, and it is to the control of such that we must bring 

 to bear the advantage of skill. 



But the well-meaning reader will often ask, won't your system 

 break any horse without so many perplexing conditions? Rr.rey and 

 others claimed they could make any horse gentle, and were very suc- 

 cessful. And what do you mean by so many conditions if your system 

 is an improvement? 



It is easy enough to claim great skill and power in the subjection 

 of horses, but this does not prove real skill. We should go back and 

 examine and compare principles, and judge of their value and points 

 of merit. In the first place, people were not so exacting and critical 

 years ago as now. We are now required to do more, and the results 

 we are able to show are so much greater than could be shown upon 

 horses of the same disposition and habits by any and all old systems, 

 that there is no comparison. The art of controlling and subduing 

 wild or vjcious horses I have shown to have reduced to an exact science, 

 leaving nothing to be desired. But I would remind that we are act- 

 ing upon fixed conditions, that these conditions are unalterable. Some 

 horses are naturally gentle, others vicious. Some are dull and stupid, 

 while others are quick to comprehend, and no matter hov/ perfect the 

 treatment, success must be regulated very much by the character of 

 the subject. But my object is to simplify these difficulties, and to do 

 so would call your attention to what is said about dispositions on page 

 30. But here you are simply reminded of extremes. 



