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US induces him to stand still when we want lilia 

 to do so, obedience to the impulse of a greater 

 fear than he has of us, will induce him to run 

 away when we do not want him to do any thing 

 of the kind. 



It may appear a startling assertion to say that 

 I would rather have to do with any commonly 

 vicious horse than Avith a decidedly nervous one, 

 and I really have had a long and multitudinous 

 experience of both sorts; in fact, from the par- 

 ticular situations in which I have been placed as 

 regards horses, I do believe there is no trick or 

 devilry horses can show to man, that I have not 

 often been favoured with by them. The result of 

 this induces me to make this assertion, and on the 

 followino- crround. 



However great a rogue a vicious horse may be, 

 he, like other rogues, is mostly quite awake as to 

 what will injure himself, bodily ; that is, he is so 

 unless we let him get so much ahead in his mis- 

 chief that excitement or fright renders him reck- 

 less. Before this he is sensible to pain, and is 

 wise enough to prefer abandoning his vicious in- 

 tent if he finds we are prepared to thwart him. 

 Xot so v\'ith the nervous horse. He premeditates 

 no mischief, but when he does wrong, it may be 

 said he cannot help it. In fright, his acts are as 

 momentary and involuntary as the start of some 

 persons on hearing the unexpected discharge of a 



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