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justifiable apprehension. If a man possesses as much 

 sense as I give my reader credit for, and, conse- 

 quently, does not wish to confirm a bad habit in his 

 horse for the sake of one run, let him never leave 

 that fence till his horse has taken it. I would not, 

 if I stayed there till dark ; and then, if I had not 

 succeeded, I would bring him to it the next day; 

 but, by fair or foul persuasion, over it he should go. 

 But, be it remembered, I only mean this as regards 

 a horse who refuses from roguery or obstinacy ; it 

 would be cruel thus to persevere with a horse who 

 refused from sheer fear ; he must be kindly and 

 gently ridden at minor fences till he gets confidence 

 to face the one, or similar ones, to the one that 

 alarmed him. The bull-riding system of forcing a 

 nervous horse " in or over,'* is lasting ruination to 

 him ; for though such riders are not prone to reflect, 

 other men are, and reflection will satisfy them that 

 forcing a horse into a place he fears, only multiplies 

 that fear, for it confirms his dread of it. It shews 

 him that, by not resolutely refusing to go near it, he 

 gets the very fall he dreaded, for, be assured, a fall 



