THE STANDARD 



Horse and Stock Book. 



Chapter I. 



PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



ONCE, while stopping with a 

 farmer, as a matter of amuse- 

 ment I took a colt that had 

 become unmanageable to him, and 

 made him perfectly gentle. Upon 

 learning what I had done, the farmer 

 was so surprised at the result as to 

 offer me 'fifty dollars for the secret. 

 Without thinking, I proposed teach- 

 ing him and ten of, his neighbors 

 how I did it, in addition to other 

 points that might be of interest to 

 them. In this I was entirely suc- 

 cessful, and thus I was unintention- 

 ally drifted into the most trying 

 and exacting field of effort that 

 ever man engaged in, which con- 

 tinued nearly nineteen years. I 

 was necessarily forced into contact 

 with all sorts of people, who were 

 continually trying to break me 

 down, and in addition I had the 

 most vicious and difficult horses 

 forced upon me to experiment upon ; and that I succeeded at all 

 seems to me even now so remarkable as to be beyond belief. But 

 without realizing it, or knowing it at the time, the people who forced 



Fig. 1.- 



- Ideal Head of an Intelligent, 

 Docile Character. 



