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SUBJECTION. 



of this temperament. The first may be tried, but in the 

 event of great resistance and the animal becoming very 

 warm, give sufficient rest to permit the blood to become 

 cool, when you will easily succeed by working carefully and 

 thoroughly, encouraging obedience by kindness. 



The naturally sulky, wild, desperate disposition, very 

 rare, but always shown by a middling large eye, well formed 

 head and countenance; the ears are thrown back, the eye 



sullen, requires the 

 most care and thor- 

 oughness, and must 

 not be hurried too 

 much, and not at all 

 if greatly warmed 

 up, as such, under 

 such circumstances, 

 become intensely 

 reckless. If kickers 

 or balkers, perplex- 

 ingly sullen and de- 

 termined, passive 

 treatment will en- 

 able controlling such 



Sensitive and Flighty. easily, always en- 



couraging all you 



can for obedience by caressing and giving presents of 

 apples, oats, &c., &c., and above all, you are not on any 

 condition, to stop as soon as the animal submits. Keep at 

 work now, treating in the kindest manner until the nervous 

 system becomes cool, and the horse is fully reconciled to 

 your control. 



You are not to consider a horse broken because submis- 

 sive to control after being handled once. Test carefully 

 after getting cool, and if necessary, repeating until certain 

 of success. 



Let me impress upon you here the necessity of being 

 thorough. It is not by any means safe to be otherwise. 

 Make it your business to do well what you attempt to do. 

 A man of much less than ordinary ability can accomplish 

 almost wonders by trying and being thorough. The man 

 who will not try, and not only try, but be persevering, is 

 not worthy of success. 



