fv PREFACE. 



hard to say. Boys and colts, so much alike in friskiness and 

 stubbornness, both are misunderstood and abused in equal ratio. 

 The boys are shaken and whipped, and the colts are yanked, 

 kicked, and- pounded. That high-spirited or slow-witted boys be- 

 come good men, and high-spirited or dull colts make serviceable 

 horses, I conceive is due to the grace of God more than to man's 

 agency, — that fine grace, I mean, spread abroad through and ex- 

 isting in all His creatures, which operates in regenerating con- 

 tinually, making the good better, and preventing those whose 

 circumstances forbid their becoming good from becoming ab- 

 solutely bad. 



The author of this book is known to me as one of the 

 gifted ones of the earth, because he is gifted to discern the na- 

 ture of animals, and educate them fpr man's service. The pos- 

 session of this gift suggested his mission, and well has he fol- 

 lowed it, and by it been educated himself to a degree rarely, if 

 ever, attained by man before. I doubt if there be on the globe 

 his equal in knowledge as to the best method of training horses. 

 Through this volume he seeks to give the public the benefit of 

 his experience. I bespeak for it the careful perusal of the curi- 

 ous, and of those especially whose judgment and heart alike 

 prompt them to seek for and promulgate knowledge, which, be- 

 ing popularized, would make the people more humane and horses 

 more serviceable. 



