vi PREFACE. 



and abused in equal ratio. The boys are shaken and 

 whipped, and colts are yanked, kicked, and pounded. 

 That high-spirited or slow-witted boys become good men, 

 and high-spirited or dull colts make serviceable horses, I 

 conceive is due to {he grace of God more than to man's 

 agency, that fine grace, I mean, spread abroad through 

 and existing in all his creatures, which operates in re- 

 generating continually, making the good better, and pre- 

 venting those whose circumstances forbid their becoming 

 good from becoming absolutely bad. 



The author of this little book is known to me as one of 

 the gifted ones of the earth, because he is gifted to 

 discern the nature of animals, and educate them for man's 

 service. The possession of this gift suggested his mission, 

 and well has he followed it, and by it been educated him- 

 self to a degree rarely, if ever, attained by man before. 

 I doubt if there be on the globe his equal in knowledge 

 as to the best method of training horses. Through this 

 volume he seeks to give the public the benefit of his 

 experience. I bespeak for it the careful perusal of the 

 curious and of those especially whose judgment and heart 

 alike prompt them to seek for and promulgate knowledge, 

 which, being popularized, would make the people more 

 humane and horses more serviceable. 



W. H. H. MURRAY, 



Murray's Stock Farm, Guilford^ Conn. 



