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appeal to the intelligence, and act with success upon the 

 better part of the nature ; and you must succeed. 



I never drive a horse, or advise driving one, while he is 

 touchy, and liable to try to resist control. I aim to make 

 the foundation first of the most perfect docility, so that if 

 the breeching should break and let the wagon come 

 against the quarters, or any other unusual cause of fear 

 occur, to have the horse under such perfect control, that 

 he will submit to command without showing fear or excite- 

 ment. If I cannot do this safely after one treatment, I re- 

 peat it, and test the horse until I can. This point of being 

 patient, careful, and thorough, is what is wanted. When I 

 took in hand the famous Malone horse of Cleveland, I 

 was not satisfied to stop when the horse drove gently : 

 I subjected him to the most thorough and exacting trials 

 to prove his docility. It was because of this thoroughness 

 of treatment, which did not in all require more than an 

 hour's time, that I was able to insure his entire safety. 



At one time a passing street-car ran into my wagon, 

 and crushed it against the quarters. At another, when 

 trotting rapidly, one of the clips connecting the shaft to 

 the axle broke. The horse stopped instantly at command, 

 without showing the least inclination to kick or run away, 

 one of the most exciting trials a horse could be subjected 

 to. The object should be to make the horse really safe; 

 and it is the highest proof of skill to do this without ac- 

 cident or failure. 



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Another point for consideration is, that the horse is 

 liable to be insane, or of having the nervous system broken 

 down, and that such causes of derangement are traceable 

 to definite sources. To a superficial observer, all horses 

 that look alike appear the same to them ; and they are sur- 

 prised and vexed if they find a horse that does not seem 

 to yield to the most severe and persistent treatment, espe- 

 cially treatment that greatly excites the nervous system. 

 There is, in the first place, a possibility of hereditary 

 causes. Like produces like, is a fixed law of nature, 

 from which there is no deviation. But nature may be so 

 disturbed and deranged in her actions, as to prevent, if 



