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avery's own farrter. 



after this, all that was necessary to make him obey the 

 word, was to place a rope or strap around his neck and 

 choke him a few minutes. By this I learned that chok- 

 ing had a subduinof influence over the most obstinate of 

 horses, and which I occasionally resorted to. A friend, 

 where we stopped over night, requested me to tell him 

 how I managed to make that horse work so well (for he 

 was an old offender), and I told him the process made 

 use of on this occasion. About a year after this I again 

 met this friend, when he threatened to give me a flog- 

 ging, for, said he, 1 had a noble horse, only once in a 

 while he would balk so I could do nothing with him, so 

 I just put a chain around his neck, and hitched my oxen 

 to it and draws him only just a little ways, and Ise broke 

 his neck — Ise did! This circumstance made me a little 

 cautious about recommending this mode of subduing the 

 horse, and also led me to study the nature and disposi- 

 tion of him more carefully, for I thought if he could be 

 subdued in this way, there must be a nobler and better 

 way for man to accomplish it. Therefore, on the dis- 

 covery (to me) of such an one, I abandoned the former, 

 as cruel and barbarous, more than twenty years ago. 



Now I do not expect to be fortunate enough to make 

 myself renowned in relating my experience or observa- 

 tion of the horse in this respect; but I trust, mainly on 

 the merits of this subject, to become useful to those who 

 feel an interest in this important topic Firstly, the 

 horse is governed and receives his instruction through the 

 five senses, viz: seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling, and 

 feeling; ihe one of seeing seems to rather predominate, 

 but the most of these are more acute than even man's, 



