20 TRAINING OF HORSES. 
its are formed, he is permanently educated to your 
wants, 
-Of course, a horse which can be broken of a bad 
habit and taught a useful one, may by the same rule 
have his habits reversed; or may by careless handling 
lose the useful habit and acquire’ bad ones; but by 
proper usage, the horses taught by our method retain 
their lessons throughout life. 
‘We now commence our illustrations of our method, 
again cautioning the operator to be-careful and explicit- 
ly follow our directions, as some professed horse-tamers 
have borrowed portions of our system, and leaving out 
some apparently trifling yet important items, have con- 
tributed to bring the business into disrepute. We begitt 
with é, 
THE WILD COLT. 
The first step to be taken is to see that the inclosure 
in which you intend to operate upon the colt is unoccu- 
pied by any thing which might distract the attention of 
the colt; for instance, fowls, domestic animals, etc, 
and all persons except the one who is to undertake the 
training. This latter precaution should be taken for 
the reason that the presence of other parties would an- 
noy the colt; also, that by allowing them to be present 
you would violate the conditions of your instruction. °; 
Being prepared, the object is then to get the colt 
into ‘his training place as carefully as possible, using 
such gentle means as may be convenient and most 
likely to be successful without exciting the colt. Every 
