200 GENERAL NOTES. 



by making a pretense of being frightened 

 at everything that can attract his atten- 

 tion, until he sometime or other overdoes 

 his acted part and finds that he is running 

 away in earnest, when he becomes ter- 

 ror-stricken, and the farce becomes a 

 tragedy. 



Undoubtedly, much of the vice In 

 horses has been cultivated by the severity 

 and cruelty of their masters, and it is true 

 that vice may often be cured by care and 

 kindness. But there is not in the heart 

 of the horse that true love for man that 

 the dog, even when neglected and ill- 

 treated, ahvays bears for the one he ac- 

 knowledges as master. 



The horse, therefore, may not be 

 governed by love; he must be made to 

 feel and to acknowledge the superior pow- 



