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over the face, and let it drop suddenly and seize him 

 by the nose, pinching it so close he can not breath, at 

 the same time grasping the left ear in your right hand 

 firmly, not losing sight of his eye. 



" Nor let a wave of trouble roll, 

 Across your fearless breast," 

 Lest all should be lost but soul, 

 And success will crown the rest. 



Now you hold his five senses (as it were) within your 

 grasp, which are all the same both in the most haggard 

 and mean-looking horse that draws a coal cart, and in 

 the fiery steed; although they may have been blunted 

 by hard fare and ill-usage in the one, and cultivated by 

 iind treatment and skill in the other. The nose is 

 closed so that he does not breathe, consequently he does 

 not smell, neither can he taste. You obstruct his hear- 

 ing by holding on to the ear; he is made sensible now 

 of the touch of feeling for he can not shake you off, but, 

 like an Indian when his finger is in your mouth, he pulls 

 steadily back after the first struggle, forgetting he has 

 any other means of hurting you. Your eye is master of 

 his, for he sees nothing in you now but the masterly 

 courage and power you hold over him, which he readily 

 submits to. This will cow the ugliest horse you ever 

 saw; he is completely conquered now, and all you have 

 to do is to teach him that you wish to be obeyed. This 

 is all the coercion that need to be used to subdue the 

 very worst of horses. To learn a colt to back well is 

 is sometimes the most difficult thing you have to learn 

 him, which can be done eifectually by follow^ing the 

 above plan, having a second person behind him at the 



