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other way to teach the brute than that found effective 

 with the human. 



Indiscriminate caressing is almost as bad as none 

 at all. If your son has passed his geography exami- 

 nations, do you reward your daughter? If your 

 horse performs some task in which his hind quarters 

 have been the chief agents employed, do not pat his 

 neck; should he yield his neck and jaws to your 

 attempt at '' mouthing " him, do not caress his ribs 

 — and, above all, do not think that this is far- 

 fetched, for it is the gist of the whole business. 

 Punish and reward the part you are attempting to 

 " educate." As that old book on equestrianism says : 

 *' If your beaste disobeyeth alrayte him with a loude 

 voyce; and beat him terribly about the eares." 

 Leaving out the voice, there is good sense in that; 

 and soundly cuffed or switched ears are, in cases of 

 mutiny, very productive of good, as is the caress to 

 the same part, — the brain, — when the aninial has 

 apparently grasped a new idea. The strength and 

 sense of the Baucher system is that it attacks directly 

 the member it would educate, and rewards as it 



