The Horse, as Comrade and Friend 



on the leading rein, with yourself at his shoulder. 

 It is a hundred to one that everything will 

 go all right. Talk to him and go about one 

 hundred yards. Stop and pet him, and administer 

 just one lump of sugar. Start again and continue 

 for a quarter of a mile, talking to him at 

 intervals. Stop, and if everything has gone 

 all right, take off the leading rein, uncoil the 

 driving reins, fall back behind your men to 

 the level of the forecarriage, and start him 

 again with the words "Walk" and "Pull." 

 You have him under complete control with the 

 driving reins, and it is again a hundred to one 

 that all will be right. Go half a mile thus, stop, 

 pet Disciple, give him another piece of sugar in 

 reward for his perfect behaviour, and get the 

 men to make the traces fast to the pullbar, 

 and the breeching to the shafts. Then let 

 the men go back to their former places, each 

 with his hand on his shaft, and start again. 

 Disciple won't know the difference. After 

 another haK mile, during which you have 

 talked to Disciple from your new position, 

 stop, go to his head, pet him and give him just 

 another lump of sugar. 



Take the opportunity of this stop, and while 

 you are at Disciple's head, to get one of your 

 men to get up into the driving seat and step 

 down again two or three times, so that the 

 horse gets accustomed to the swaying of the 

 buggy. Then with the two men at their 



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