The Horse. 19 



It is not the fear of the whip that teaches 

 him good manners, so much as his knowledge of 

 wrong-doing, which is communicated to him by 

 the higlier intelligence and superior will of his 

 master — man. You cannot frighten a horse into 

 good manners; anything in the shape of fright 

 has an injurious effect upon hiin, altogether dif- 

 ferent to the effect produced by correction with 

 the whip. 



The memory of the horse is similar in 

 character to our own. We do not learn good 

 habits without much training and many correc- 

 tions, and the slips of memory are sometimes 

 hard to obviate. So it is with the horse : his 

 memory serves him tricks, and many repetitions 

 of instruction are necessary before he acquires 

 good manners. A Schoolmaster of great ex- 



