CHAPTER XVI. 



TEACHING TO LEAP. 



My experience has taught me to differ 

 from those who think that a generous 

 horse objects to leaping in cold blood. A 

 horse used as I recommend will take a 

 positive pleasure in doing all that his rider 

 requires of him, and as long as it is not 

 carried on until he is fatigued, there is 

 nothing he likes better than leaping. 



I can understand how horses that are 

 punished with the spurs or whip every time 

 they approach a leap, acquire a horror of 



everything that reminds them of the tor- 



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