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 MIND-POWER HORSEMANSHIP 



AN INDEFINABLE SOMETHING" PERSONAL MAGNETISM 



CONSENT TO BE GOVERNED CULTIVATION OF 



MIND-POWER CONTROL 



HERE seems to exist between man and beast 

 a certain force by which the former is able to 

 exert over the latter some subtle influence to 

 which various names such as " bond of sym- 

 pathy," " an indefinable something," are occasionally given. 

 So far as I am aware, no writer on hunting has attempted 

 to advance any hypothesis which may reasonably account 

 for the source of this power or define its scope and limi- 

 tations. 



We hear it said that dogs and horses love certain people 

 because these people love them, and that this love itself 

 explains their control over horses or dogs. " All dogs 

 take to me," one person says ; " I don't know why it is, 

 but I can make them do almost anything." And, indeed, 

 some persons easily teach a dog or a cat or a bird a trick 

 which another would require weeks to instruct them in, if 

 he did not fail altogether. Yet, while it is true that a per- 

 son who loves animals is more likely to train them easily, 



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