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Instantly tie the halter into the tail, a little long, and at 

 starting touch the nose lightly with the whip. After once 

 starting, the rest will be easy. To be thorough, reverse ; 

 but while helpless, and his mind is unable to act, accustom 

 him to be touched, as you please, around the hind parts, 

 in fact, every part of his body, until perfectly regard- 

 less of being handled or touched with a pole. Be very 

 thorough. The colt should be made COMPLETELY DOCILE, 

 to be ridden and handled as you desire. Rub and touch 

 the hind parts and legs until there is no scringing or 

 regard for being touched. Now, untie the halter, and see 

 that he submits to all this while free. As I before inti- 

 mated, I would recommend that making one part of the 

 body gentle to be touched and handled, does not make 

 the rest of the body gentle. All parts of the body must 

 be treated in the same careful, thorough manner, and on 

 both sides alike. This is the law of the horse's reasoning, 

 which is shown in a great variety of ways ; consequently 

 one-half or two-thirds of the body may be gentle, while 

 the rest of it may be unbroken, or the horse will resent 

 having it handled or touched. 



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We see this shown in a horse that has been, perhaps, 

 worked for years, and is supposed to be well broken ; but 

 let the whiffletree or cross-piece touch his quarters, it is 

 likely to be the signal to jump and kick, and show as 

 much fear and repugnance of being touched as if never 

 trained. If, in the first place, this part of the body had 

 been carefully and thoroughly accustomed to have the 

 pressure of the cross-piece or the shafts brought against 

 it, there would be no fear or resistance to any thing strik- 

 ing or coming against the hind parts. 



It is on this account that the first experience of the colt 

 should be made right, in proving to him conclusively, that 

 he must submit to be handled with the greatest freedom. 

 It is because I have learned to create this thorough foun- 

 dation for preventing being frightened and made nervous 

 by any possible cause of fear, that I am able so easily and 

 quickly to drive and control any colt in a few minutes, 

 when attached to shafts, without breeching. With this 



