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trils, and you have a horse that is sensitive and impulsive, 

 will not bear the whip, naturally gentle, but will not submit 

 to abuse, because sensitive and excitable, and reminds one of 

 the sheep. Such a horse can be won by kindness, if treated 

 carefully, to do most any thing. Now, if we put more white 

 in the eye, set it farther back in the side of the head, in- 

 crease the length from eye to ear, make the ears heavier 

 and longer, round the ends, and set them wider apart, you 

 will have the naturally sensitive disposition, easily man- 

 aged when treated kindly, but, excited or maddened, will 

 show an under current of the most positive will and cour- 

 age in extreme, reminding of the reckless bull-dog nature. 

 With a large brain, heavy ears, but rather wide apart ; eyes 

 large, showing much white ; eye-lids thick a strong, 

 powerful organization ; in repose, quiet, but excited, quick, 

 and dangerous, a sort of wildish, snorting expression and ac- 

 tion, and you are reminded of the feline or cat nature. This 

 is the horse that when bad is a reckless fighter. If black, 

 gray, or a dirty white, heavy, hanging under lip and large 

 nostrils, you have the devil if you ever found one in horse 

 form. The whole action reminds of the quick, reckless, 

 treacherous cat-nature, quiet in repose, but the fury of des- 

 peration when excited and warmed up. If much white in 

 the eye, long inner corners, sneakish, sullen expression, you 

 are sure to have a horse of the dirtiest, meanest nature, 

 but one of the most wonderful endurance, one that when 

 spoiled, warned to resistance, you will have a horse that 

 will resist all the ordinary methods of treatment. 



Let me here give you a little special advice, though I 

 shall call special attention to this matter in another part of 

 this work. When you suspect having this kind of character, 

 do not be alarmed, keep cool, and prepare carefully for 

 every emergency. When ready, push rapidly, using one 

 method of subjection after another, making every point 

 thoroughly. The whole key is, to work so quickly as to 

 make your point before the horse warms into a fight. This 

 is one of the important points of real success, and, in par- 

 ticular cases, a point you cannot safely neglect. This was 

 the key to my subduing so easily Wild Pete, and all this 

 class of reckless, desperate fellows. If I only have a good 

 yard or field, I make short work as I can of such. Many- 



