216 KICKING. ILL USTBATIVB CASES. 



" You cannot break him," said he ; "I can break any 

 horse you can." 



" You cannot break your colt," said I. 



" No," he answered, " nor can any one else do it." 



" Bring him here," said I. "If I have a correct im- 

 pression of the case, I believe I can drive him gentle in 

 twenty or thirty minutes." Finally yielding, the colt was 

 sent for, and led forward for my inspection. I stated at 

 once, that I could drive him without breeching in fifteen 

 minutes. 



" It is utterly impossible," said Mr. Stevens. " You 

 don't know anything about him." 



I told him to come into the class, and if I did not hitch 

 up and drive the colt in fifteen minutes and convince him 

 there was no humbug about my treatment, that I would 

 not only give him his money back, but $25, in addition, 

 also guaranteeing to give him $500, if I injured the horse 

 in any way. 



He looked at me sharply, saying, " I do not know 

 what to think of it. Either you are one of the worst hum- 

 bugs in the world, or else you know more about horses than 

 any other living man ; I do not know which." He finally 

 concluded to join the class, with the understanding that if 

 I failed in the least he should hold me strictly responsible 

 for any damage done to the horse. On this condition I 

 took his name and money. 



I saw at once where the trouble was. The colt was in- 

 tensely sensitive, but intelligent, and any treatment which 

 would excite him in the least would make him a most dif- 

 ficult subject to manage. I knew also just the treatment 

 he would bear. He was so nervous that when the bedding 

 was being scraped up, or moved behind him, he would al- 

 most jump into the manger from fear. He was subjected 

 with care to the Third Method, using only ordinary press- 



