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In this way a horse can be driven with comparative safety 

 near or about moving or stationary trains. Anything like 

 complicated rigging for the control of such horses will be 

 found comparatively worthless. If the horse cannot be 

 driven with safety after the treatment given, the risk is too 

 great; he had better be discarded for driving near the cars. 



It may be asked, how I have been able to make horses 

 so fearless of the cars that they can be led up to an engine 

 or driven near, with indifference. The course I have usu- 

 ally pursued is as follows : First get the horse under good 

 control by a course of subjection, usually by the First or 

 Second Methods, or both; then make arrangements with the 

 engineer to let off steam plentifully, and rush the horse, 

 with the harness on, into it until completely covered, when 

 he will soon cease to care anything about the noise, etc. If 

 this cannot be done, drive him around, gradually going 

 nearer the engine, until indifferent to it. 



Much depends, in the first place, upon getting the horse 

 under good control ; second, in the management while in 

 the neighborhood of the engine. A good way, sometimes, 

 is to blindfold the horse and drive near the train until quiet, 

 then let him see out of one eye, gradually moving him 

 around, and let him see out of both eyes. Very much can 

 be done in this way. The horse should be hitched to a 

 wagon and driven at every available opportunity about or 

 near the cars. 



There is one point to which I would call particular at- 

 tention : The horse may appear perfectly gentle after being 

 treated, but when the position is changed, as when taken 

 from a building into the street, or from the street into a 

 building, or if allowed to stand for some time, he will, upon 

 trial, seem to be as much afraid as ever, but upon repeti- 

 tion of treatment it will require only a very few minutes to 

 make him as fearless as before. 



