332 LEADING THE COLT OUT OF THE STABLE. 



in adjusting the halter) would be sufficient to 

 frighten a colt which had once experienced its 

 scarifying effects. We are then advised " to have 

 a long rope or strap ready, and as soon as you 

 have the halter on, attach this to it, so that you 

 can let him walk the length of the stable without 

 letting go the strap, or without making him pull 

 on the halter ; for if you only let him feel the 

 weight of your hand on the halter, and give him 

 rope when he runs from you, he will never rear, 

 pull, or throw himself, yet you will be holding 

 him all the time, and doing more towards gentling 

 him than if you had the power to shut him right 

 up and hold him to one spot ; because he does 

 not know anything about his strength, and if you 

 do not do anything to make him pull he will never 

 know that he can. In a few minutes you can 

 begin to control him with the halter ; then shorten 

 the distance betvreen yourself and the horse by 

 taking up the strap in your hand." 



Then follow some precautions about leading the 

 colt out of the stable; but so far it does not 

 appear that a scintilla or spark of new light is 

 thrown on our system of horse-breaking, although 

 there is something novel in the directions given 

 under the next head, '' How to lead a colt by the 

 side of a broke horse" through a stable door, which 



