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struct a steam-engine, and run it, or make a machine by 

 which grain and other farm products can be planted and 

 gathered most economically and easily, in every line 

 and channel of husbandry, scientific and mechanical, there 

 is no lack of the most exact rules of guidance. But in 

 this of the principles and laws of educating horses, so that 

 the difficulties and causes of annoyance in their manage- 

 ment are removed, and there is certainty of success in 

 securing their obedience and docility, there is no recog- 

 nized authority or hardly a line of reliable guidance, 

 because not known. 



When I advertise and assert I can control and drive, 

 with but very few exceptions, any kicking, runaway colt or 

 horse, in from ten to twenty minutes, and make such so 

 gentle that he will not kick or resist control, though the 

 shafts should strike his quarters, or attempt to run away 

 though subjected to extreme causes of fear and excite- 

 ment, to which but few horses that are considered well 

 broke would submit, and perform other feats of control 

 equally great in the subjection of vicious horses, the most 

 intelligent horsemen and farmers shake their heads, and 

 regard the assumption with the most positive unbelief. 

 Yet I prove nothing is simpler or easier to do ; that an 

 ordinary boy or man, who has a little nerve, and is patient, 

 can control the worst of horses without any difficulty wor- 

 thy the name. When I have good subjects to illustrate 

 properly the effects of my principles, I give such convin- 

 cing proofs of all this that there cannot be any question 

 about it. Now, I only prove how easy it is to make 

 horses of even a very vicious nature, safe and gentle, when 

 treated in a sensible, reasonable manner. 



When this simple truth is opened clearly to the mind, 

 then, and not till then, are the real humanity and value of 

 my instruction fully appreciated. The surprise, too, is 

 great, that a horse can be made docile and obedient so 

 easily, quickly, and surely, without any severity that is at 

 all dangerous, and that every step of success in the subjec- 

 tion and control of the most vicious horses is held and 

 fixed by kindness. 



