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acter is changed. A great many cases of this kind have 

 come under my observation. At one time, a gentleman 

 who had previously attended one of my lectures, told me 

 that he and his brother owned a fine stallion in company. 

 The horse was naturally quite gentle, but one day his 

 brother, becoming impatient with him, hit him sharply ; the 

 result was the horse ever afterward held such an antipathy 

 against him that he could not safely go near or handle him 

 in any way, while towards himself the horse was perfectly 

 gentle. 



One of my pair of matched, trained horses, nine years 

 old, bought in Madison, 0., and exhibited by me for a num- 

 ber of years, was of good character at the time of coming 

 into my possession ; but when 1 undertook to train him to 

 be controlled by the whip, he became so excited when hit 

 that he jumped at me with all the ferocity of a bulldog, 

 and I was obliged to tie him back. One sharp whipping, 

 and leaving him mad, would have made him irretrievably 

 vicious ; so I was very careful when compelled to rouse 

 him much to treat him afterward with great kindness, 

 giving him apples, rubbing his nose, etc., until entirely over 

 the excitement, and finally succeeded in training him as I 

 wished without making him vicious. After using him for 

 some years, he passed into other hands, when, by needless 

 excitement and punishment, he became so bad a biter as to 

 be almost worthless. 



The " Gilford-Morgan Horse," sold to Fred Arnd, of 

 Bath, N. Y., and mentioned in the last part of this chapter, 

 is a striking case in point. Had I not been in Bath at the 

 time, and able to treat him properly, he would have been 

 entirely unmanageable and worthless. 



I would also refer to the " Robert's Horse," of Utica, 



