830 TREATMENT OF STUBBORN HORSES. 



flection on the lowest horse -breaker's capacity in 

 this country to think him ignorant of all such 

 things, and the treatment here recommended. 

 Under the next head or chapter we are told " how 

 to proceed if your horse is of a stubborn dispo- 

 sition — if he lays back his ears as you approach 

 him, or turns his heds to kick you, he has not 

 that regard or fear of man that he should have 

 to enable you to handle him quickly and easily, 

 and it might be well to give him a few sharp cuts 

 with the whip about the legs, pretty close to the 

 body, the skin on the inner part of his legs, or 

 about his flank, being thinner, more tender, than 

 on his back. But do not whip him much — just 

 enough to scare him ; it is not because we want 

 to liurt the horse we wliijp him!' 



Then why recommend his being whipped in 

 the most tender parts, where the whip is sure to 

 hurt him, if you only desire to scare him ? AVhat 

 an absurd contradiction ! " But Avhatever you do, 

 do quickly, sharply, and loith a good deal of fire, 

 but always without anger. If you are going to 

 scare him at all, you must do it at once." The 

 meaning of this appears obvious enough, that to 

 scare a horse you must give him a thorough good 

 scarifying, although there is a proviso added, that 

 you are to refrain from malnng him mad by whip' 



