344 TO MAKE A HORSE FOLLOW YOU. 



I will now only briefly take notice of Mr. Rarey's 

 two last chapters — " How to make a horse follow 

 you, and how to make him stand without holding," 

 in which I am sorry to find the too frequent use 

 of the whip again thus recommended : — " Every 

 time you turn, touch him slightly with the whip, to 

 make him step close up to you, and then caress 

 him with your hand. He will soon learn to hurry 

 up to escape the whip ; and if he should stop and 

 turn from you, give him a few s/ia?'p cuts about 

 the hind legs^ and he will soon turn his head to- 

 wards you, when you must always caress him. A 

 few lessons of this kind will make him run after 

 you when he sees the motion of the whip ;" which, 

 if it means anything, means this : — that the horse 

 must be terrified into following his master. Here 

 again, as in many previous instances, Mr. Rarey's 

 ideas on horse-taming are totally at variance with 

 my own ; in short, taking his work from begin- 

 ning to end, we differ nearly toto coelo in regard 

 to the breaking and management of colts and 

 horses. 



If my observations upon Mr. Rarey's sys- 

 tem of breaking colts and subjugating refractory 

 horses appear too severe, I have only to say, that 

 my sole object is, as it ever has been, to save that 



