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temperaments that may make you serious trouble and require' care- 

 fulness to manage successfully. They are usually horses of good 

 dispositions, very intelligent, but sensitive, and if thoroughly fright- 

 ened, the effect may be very serious indeed. In any event, if there 

 is much fear, it must be thoroughly mastered. The course usually 

 pursued is to hitch up the horse as carefully as possible, and then 

 try to drive him. This generally only leads to increasing the 

 trouble, by giving the horse an opportunity to resist agauy and thus 



Fig. 309. — As the Desperate Kicker sometimes Resists when Subjected to First Method. 



be only more confirmed in the habit, the very point we should try 

 to avoid. 



Take the horse first into a quiet corner of a well-sodded field, 

 back yard, or carriage-house with floor well covered with some soft 

 material. See that there are no idlers lounging around to criticise 

 and annoy you ; prepare yourself with every necessary requisite for 

 your experiments, even having provided your supply of apples, 

 sugar, salt, or something else of which the horse is fond. Make up 

 your mind that you will not lose your temper, anil that you will 

 work slowly and carefully. Try first the Second Method. If car- 

 ried out properly, the case should be quite a bad one that cannot be 

 controlled lay it so far as making gentle out of harness. There is 



