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usually effect a cure from three different causes — 

 the constant, but not severe exercise, will steady 

 him, he will be accustomed to constantly hear and 

 see hoands, till he takes little notice of them ; and 

 never being distressed or punished, he finds hunting 

 is not to be dreaded as a source of suffering to him. 

 The next alternative is to ride him, or sell him, to 

 be ridden with stag-hounds. Here is no drawing 

 cover to excite him ; he is brought up at the pro- 

 per time, and away he goes without having had 

 time to work himself up to a kind of frenzy, which 

 he would with fox-hounds ; for, mind, hunting him 

 two or even three times a-week, though it might 

 reduce him to a skeleton, would in no way still his 

 nervousness — it would increase it ; for the weaker and 

 more thoroughly jaded he becomes, the greater would 

 be his punishment ; so his apprehension, or expecta- 

 tion of it, would be increased. 



The reader may depend on it, that though most 

 failings in the horse are to be cured or palliated, fear 

 is not ; I have therefore no hesitation in saying, a 

 horse subject to the influence of fear, is a far more 



