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of them desperately were brought me to experiment upon. 

 The one that pulled the worst provoked me so much by his 

 intense pulling, that to frighten him out of it I whipped 

 him very hard upon the tip of his nose, where there is the 

 most sensibility. Though he made a supreme struggle, I 

 succeeded in this way in making him so afraid to pull that, 

 no matter how excited afterward, he could not be made to 

 go back. The other horse submitted in a few minutes, re- 

 quiring but a slight punishment. Meeting the owner after- 

 ward, he informed me that the horse that pulled the hard- 



FIG. 203. As a horse of sullen temper is liable to throw himself 

 down when pulling. 



est at first never did it afterward, while he had much 

 trouble in effectually breaking the other one of the habit. 

 This led me to experiment upon this principle all I 

 could. When I found a bad case, I treated it, if possible, 

 in private, and was invariably so successful that I soon be- 

 came convinced that I could in this way force the most 

 stubborn pullers into submission in a few minutes. In 

 making these experiments for over two years, I found that 

 in many cases the lesson must be repeated, in order to fully 

 break up the habit, and that it was fatal to success to let 

 the horse feel that he could resist at any point. Nothing 



