14 The Art of Biding. 



It is pre-eminently the nature of the horse to 

 be willing, to answer to the voice of gentle control, 

 to be swift and alert; but it is also his nature 

 to be nervous and timid, and extremely sensible 

 to external impressions ; and when these are of a 

 violent character great and irreparable injury is 

 done to his temper. 



Those qualities which constitute his great 

 value to man, and which by nature belong 

 to him, are the very means through which, 

 by bad treatment, his worst vices may be 

 reached and developed. Just as the finest and 

 most generous natures in men and women are the 

 most susceptible to injustice and bad treatment, 

 and receive the greatest injury therefrom, so the 

 high, generous and spirited nature of the horse 

 whilst answering to every gentle impulse in har* 



