TRAINING OF HORSES. 67 
- Occasionally, too, circumstances may arise in the hand- 
ling of the horse which no foresight could have provided 
against, and if the operator does not find in the book 
a remedy for his difficulty he lays it aside in disgust. 
Nevertheless we submit-our work, confident of being 
able to be of some public service. 
We have heretofore, in this volume, treated almost 
exclusively upon the education of the colt and the treat- 
ment of his habits.. We now come to speak of a subject 
which in almost all its aspects needs to be treated from 
an entirely different stand-point. The colt. is impelled 
to his awkwardness and bad habits by natural, impulses 
of timidity and consequent fear, while the mature horse 
is actuated more by a strong self-will, his habits being 
formed through ignorance or negligence of his keeper ; 
therefore the rules which apply to the education and 
treatment of the colt are not, in all instances, the rules 
necessary to be observed in the ‘education and. treat- 
ment of the horse. Such governing rules, however, as 
‘being Aonest with the animal, exercising kindness, for- 
bearance, firmness, and perseverance, apply in both cases. 
In the education of the pleasure-horse there are many 
points of value to which allusion might be made, which 
the limits of this work will not permit. We shall, how- 
ever, touch upon those of the most importance in every- 
day use. Bear in mind that, to make the lessons which 
we are about to give effectual, it will be necessary to 
give one or two lessons each day, for a few days, until 
the habit of obedience is confirmed. 
