RESTIVENESS 



the effects of its rider's hands and legs. The 

 trainer, at the beginning of the horse's education, 

 asks a movement perfectly easy to perform. The 

 horse fails to understand what is wanted of him, 



PUNISHING A RESTIVE HORSE 



refuses, and is brutally whipped. But the whipping 

 does not make him understand anything that he 

 did not know before. So he again refuses; and is 

 again whipped. Thereupon the trainer passes to 

 another movement. But the punishment is en- 

 graved on the animal's memory. What is more, 



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