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dence as fully as you can by kind treatment. The war-bridle 

 will have no permanent effect : you must go back to first prin- 

 ciples, and make as telling an impression as you can ; then 

 follow up with simple means, an example of which I will 

 refer to here. Years ago I bought a fine Gifford Morgan 

 horse in Gowanda, N.Y. This horse was exceptionally 

 clever, never offering to nip or bite ; he was of a sorrel color, 

 medium-sized, spirited, nine years old ; the eyes were large, 

 with a trace of brown color; the eyelids with white 

 enough to show great temper; the forehead was wide, 

 but not full. I trained this horse to drive without reins, to 

 do which requires the severe use of the whip, and a great 

 deal of it ; yet, by careful treatment afterwards, I succeeded 

 in training him without exciting his ill-will : it was a nice feat 

 of training, but I did it successfully. In consequence of 

 ill-health, I sold the horse with others in Bath, N.Y., to Fred 

 Arned, who was a hotel-keeper, and liable at times to be influ- 

 enced by liquor, who without any provocation whipped the 

 horse in his stall. Happening nepr at the time, I warned 

 the man he must not on any account repeat it ; that to do so 

 would make the horse so desperately vicious that he would 

 be worthless to him ; but to go at once and get some good 

 apples and give them to him, thus winning him out of the ex- 

 citement. The man was stubborn, and would not do it. 

 In a few days the whipping was repeated ; and the conse- 

 quence was, afterwards, that horse would kill any one if he 

 could who would go near him : he would jump for a man, 

 and grate his teeth with desperation. Now Arned came to 

 me in humility, saying the horse was truly ruined, and that 

 he would do any thing I would require, if I would break the 

 horse for him. It was with the greatest difficulty that I was 

 able to get the horse out of his stall. A more desperate 

 brute I never saw. His eyes were like coals of fire. I sub- 

 jected rapidly to the first and second treatments, and suc- 

 ceeded in about thirty minutes in making him submit to me 

 completely. He now seemed to know me, and submitted to 

 my control as gently as ever. I led the horse to his stall, 

 gave him apples, and talked to him, caressing him for fully 

 twenty minutes, leaving him calm and gentle. I now em- 

 ployed a patient and careful man to take charge of the 

 horse, directed him to get a peck of good apples, go into his 



