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PEEFACE. 



BY REV. W. H. H. MURRAY. 



THERE are eleven million horses in the United States, 

 and not one man in a million who knows how to educate 

 them to the highest degree of usefulness. We say educate; 

 for the horse is an animal of high and spirited organiza- 

 tion, endowed by his Creator with capabilities and faculties 

 which sufficiently resemble man's to come under the same 

 general law of education and government. Primarily, the 

 word educate means to lead out or lead up; and it is by this 

 process of leading out and leading up a child's faculties 

 that the child becomes a useful man, and it is by a like 

 process that a colt becomes a useful horse. Now teachers, 

 like poets, are born, not made. Only a few are gifted to 

 see into and see through any form of highly organized 

 life, discern its capacities, note the interior tendencies 

 which produce habits, and discover the method of develop- 

 ing the innate forces until they reach their noblest ex- 

 pression, and then apply the true and sufficient guidance 

 and government. The few who have this gift are teachers 

 indeed, and next to the mothers of the world deserve the 

 world's applause, as foremost among its benefactors. 



Next to child training and government comes horse 

 training and government ; and which is the least under- 

 stood it were hard to say. Boys and colts, so much alike 

 in friskiness and stubbornness, both are misunderstood 



