WITH THE READER 465 



Next day I met this man, by appointment, in the upper 

 part of the city, where the mare was kept. Upon inquiry, 

 the man stated that he had hitched her to an express 

 wagon, and she refused to pull. He made up his mind he 

 would make her go, and threw her a dozen times or more, 

 when he resorted to the whip. In fact, he entered into a 

 regular fight with her, which ended in the mare becoming 

 so stubborn and mad that he could do nothing with her. 

 Said he, " She 's a bad one ! " 



I was certainly amazed that after all my instructions 

 he should be guilty of such bad management in this case. 

 I told him he should have known better in the first place 

 than to hitch such a sensitive mare, that was entirely 

 unaccustomed to drawing loads, to a heavy express wagon ; 

 that it was the quickest and surest way of spoiling her ; 

 that the First Method of Subjection was not at all adapted 

 to her case ; that it would make her submit so far as lying 

 down, but no farther ; that he should have hitched her to 

 a light sulky, at first moving her slowly so as to get her 

 into good humor, then gradually letting her out. If she 

 balked, he should have tried the War Bridle, holding the 

 Second Method as a reserve power. Yet he could not 

 understand this, though it was repeated to him over and 

 over. 



I hitched the mare to a light sulky to test her, and let 

 her go moderately for a few minutes, then gradually let her 

 out, testing her quite hard, but she never offered to balk. 

 She needed, in fact, but little more than careful, good 

 management. 



In Personal Experience, page 486, I make special 

 mention of the difficulty I had in training Turco to turn to 

 the motion of the whip ; that I worked upon him for three 

 days without making the least progress ; and that finally 

 he jumped over the girt upon the hay-mow to get away 



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