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furiously mad and quite uncontrolable. But instead of 

 this harsh treatment, they need something to calm and 

 sooth them, and then they become perfectly manageable. 



A horse that has been thus ill-treated, will oftentimes 

 allow himself to be caught in the field by a lady or 

 child, and obey them in any reasonable task with kind 

 treatment, when they would refuse to obey a cruel mas- 

 ter in doing the same thing. The following text can be 

 had reference to as you proceed with my views on the 

 subject: 



With all his other noble qualities, the horse is a 

 coward, by which he can be made to perform feats in 

 the menagerie, through fear of punishment, that he can 

 not be made to do in any other way. This accounts for 

 his sometimes being conquered by coercion. And then 

 there are other acts required of him where kind treat- 

 ment is indispensably necessary to fit him for the service 

 of the ring (as well as all other places), such as distin- 

 guishing sounds, &c., or one word from another. To 

 imitate lameness for instance, or to lay down, is a know- 

 ledge he acquires by the familiarity of certain words, 

 with a given signal to obey them. This, some pretend, is 

 a recent discovery among the capabilities of the horse. 

 To them it may be so, but others have long known that 

 \he horse could learn to distinguish the words woa, get 

 up, or as the Frenchman says, mustaw, zounds, &c., 

 from all others. But for domestic purposes, kind treat- 

 ment is decidedly the best, and is the basis of all other 

 proper modes of governing the horse, without which you 

 can not have a kind, true and safe one for family use. 



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