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stallions: 



Fig. 281.— The Robirts Horse. 



by the family for driving. Mr. Roberts, employed a groom to 

 take care of the horse, who, to show him up and play smart, was 

 in the habit of whipping him. The owner discovering this, the 

 man was discharged. Mr. Roberts afterward, while trying to 



handle the horse, was suddenly 

 pitched at by him and seriously: 

 injured, and would have been killed 

 had not two men Who were near 

 .by clubbed him off with a rail. Six 

 months after the accident he had 

 not recovered sufficiently to leave 

 his room, the horse in the mean- 

 time running loose in a large stall, 

 and so vicious that no one could 

 go near him. This case was a good 

 subject, and submitted to treat- 

 ment readily in about twenty min- 

 utes, being driven and handled 

 with as much success as before. 

 This case is referred to as No. 1? 

 in " Subjection," in my book on 

 the horse. 



I could refer to a great, many interesting cases where the char- 

 acter had been spoiled by rough, bad treatment, and I found no 

 horses more susceptible to treatment than they, being almost the 

 best subjects to experiment upon before classes. I have in my mind 

 a particularly good one, treated in Herman, N. Y. This was a 

 finely bred seven-year r old horse, taken from Canada, where it was re- 

 ported he had killed a man ; at any rate, he had not been taken out 

 of his stall for seven months, and was supposed to be entirely un- 

 broken to harness. The only clew I could get to hisMisposition was 

 that he was well-bred, and I was confident that he would be a good 

 subject when once able to get him before the class. So confident 

 was I of this, that I promised not only to make him entirely gentle, but 

 to drive him in harness without breeching in forty minuses, and failing 

 to do so would return the money. This case not: only submitted 

 readily to treatment within that time, but was tested several weeks 

 after and proved entirely gentle. He was led behind a buggy to a 

 point twelve miles distant, and hitched up by me and driven in' the 

 street without breeching. Of course, it was insisted that the horse 

 should be treated with great kindness, and he certainly behaved as 

 gentle as. any family horse. 



