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namely, to tie her to a tree and whip her with hickory 

 withes until she would surrender. I made the experiment, 

 but it only made her so excited and bad that I could 

 scarcely drive her at all afterwards. 



As I have stated elsewhere, whipping is a means of 

 punishment, and not, properly considered, of subjection. 

 Consequently, if there is serious resistance, it should not be 

 resorted to, as it is liable to do a great deal of harm. In 

 the first place, tying and whipping a horse does not give 

 him any idea what it is for ; hence it has no direct relation 

 to the resistance. In addition, it so intensifies and rouses 

 the bad nature that the habit is, if anything, made worse. 

 Another cause of trouble is that when excited the trainer 

 is liable to overdo and seriously injure himself. I did not 

 recover in a week from the excitement and exhaustion 

 caused by whipping the horse as referred to. This mare 

 was the only one in all my experience that I failed to re- 

 form. 



At the expiration of my lease, I closed my business, and 

 started out without any definite idea as to where I should 

 go, but kept on until I arrived at Somerset, in Southern 

 Kentucky. After waiting several months for Ci something 

 to turn up," my attention was called to a fine horse which 

 had a very bad reputation for running away, and could 

 only by the use of much rigging be driven by a horse-tamer 

 from Pennsylvania. The owner saw that I fancied the 

 horse, and so got the man to hitch him up for me. While 

 riding with him, I wished to take the reins, which he re- 

 fused, Isaying, " No man can drive this horse but myself." 

 Though I had no use for the horse, I determined at once 

 to buy him, and did so. There was great curiosity to know 

 what I could do with this horse, from the fact that this 

 man had said that if I attempted to drive him, he would be 

 sure to run away. Before hitching him up, I took him to 



