98 HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. VII 
those which have to be hauled about at the end of 
a halter, and whose only attempt to go is to flounder 
and buck forward in response to the application of 
the whip behind. Those farmers who have the old- 
fashioned horse-wheel thrashing machines often find 
that for young horses there is no better method of 
teaching them their first lessons in farm labour than 
to put them in with the older horses, where they soon 
learn that it is easier to cheerfully perform a task 
they cannot escape from than to refuse it. There 
are many useful lessons that may be taught a young 
horse, and he should always be corrected from his 
earliest days for any vicious tendency; he should 
never be allowed to strike, bite, or rear without a 
severe reprimand. A horse should be taught to 
stand when left by his master. The Arabs teach 
this to perfection. My Arab horses in Algeria, like 
all Arab horses, were taught to stand anywhere at 
any time immediately the reins are thrown over 
their heads on to the ground. You can thus leave 
them in the desert for hours together with perfect 
confidence that they will not move a yard from 
where you have left them. One day I was going at 
a hand gallop on one of my Arab mares when the 
buckle of my snaffle rein became unfastened, and the 
two ends fell through my fingers to the ground ; she 
immediately stopped as if shot, throwing me forward 
on to her neck. It takes about three days to teach 
a young horse this, by leaving a lad with the animal 
to put his foot on the reins every time the horse 
attempts to move, thus giving him a sharp “ chuck” 
that unpleasantly reminds him that he must remain 
where he is. 
