PRINCIPLES OF. TREATMENT. 



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ing to pull. It was no unusual thing for me to do, when the case 

 happened to be good; within two or three minutes to be able to 



Pigs. 49-51 — Three Types of Good Character. 



throw a buffalo-robe as I pleased over the head or around the body 

 of a horse that had previously been quite seriously afraid of it, 

 without the horse caring much about it. In the control of a head- 

 ' strong Stallion, if a good subject,. it rarely , required more than four 

 ' or five minutes ; the hitching up and driving gentle of such a colt as 

 described, in six to eight or ten minutes ; the making of a halter- 

 puller stand submissive under the most severe excitement of' being 



Figs. 52-54. — Coarse, Low Character. 



whipped over the head, or the cause of the pulling thrown in his face, 

 without his pulling, in a couple of minutes. 



Now, it is needless to add that if this treatment had been ap- 

 plied roughly or improperly, this control could only be obtained after 

 considerable severe treatment that would excite the horse greatly, 

 thus acquiring control only at the expense of considerable time 



