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tion : Upon visiting this place about three years afterward, 

 Mr. Smalley informed me that the horse had been used as a 

 family carriage horse and was one of the safest in that part 

 of the country, but that it was impossible to shoe him with 

 the halter on, while with the bridle on he was perfectly 

 gentle to have his feet handled. While treating him, had 

 I taken up his feet after the harness was removed, and ac- 

 customed them to being handled and pounded upon for a 

 few moments, he would have been just as gentle while be- 

 ing shod with the halter on as with the bridle. As it was, 

 he could associate submission only in the manner the treat- 

 ment was used, and this carried it no farther than driving 

 with the control of the bit, and hence the docility to allow 

 the feet to be handled while it was on. 



