CHAPTER II. 



GE*A €RAL RULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF REST- 

 IVENESS. 



Th ri, rlrst and most important rule to be observed is, 

 to .xsce-r'tcdn the cause of the i'estive??ess and the 

 circufnsra^ces zander which it ivas Jirst displayed and 

 is usually repeated. This alone will frequently suffice 

 to suggest Xv^ p/opcr remedy, as it will also show us 

 how vicious habits may be best prevented, especially 

 with young annuals. 



It is worse than useless to take your horse to the 

 street-corner, the cioss-roads, the bridge, the railway- 

 crossing or the house, etc., w^iere it is in the habit of 

 otTering opposition to your will, as this only leads evenl- 

 uall}^ to a trial of strength, in which the horse is always 

 superior. You must choose a more favorable ground 

 — namely, intelligence — in which man ought to be su- 

 perior to the brute creation, which, however, by no 

 means precludes the necessity of administering judicious 

 punishment when necessary, and altogether excludes 

 the idea of tamely truckling to the animal's insubordi- 

 nation. 



The principal causes of restiveness are to be sought, 

 either in some physical defect of conformation, in the 

 condition of the animal, in its disj^osition or in its tem- 

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