THE MIND OF THE HOESE 39 



sibility of keeping liim quiet by tlie conciliating 

 voice wlien holding him on foot with the bridle or 

 cayesson means that he did not trust the man who 

 first had chai^ge of him, that that man ill-treated 

 him, or else that he has an excessively nervous 

 or excitable nature or experiences great fear. 



When the horse appears intent in thought it 

 means that he is meditating making reactions or 

 that he has some disease. If he shows pleasure from 

 being caressed it means that he is not ill-disposed 

 and if he does not show pleasure from it, it signi- 

 fies that he is in opposition and must not be tru- 

 sted or that he is not accustomed to being caressed 

 and does not care about it. 



His attention is directed to only 

 one tiling at a time. 



There are some horses who are not attentive, 

 but most of them observe all that is going on around 

 them. I remember a horse who gave signs of obser- 

 ving the change of place of a wren in a hedge. 



Usually the horse is attentive to one thing at 

 a time. This gives us a means of conquering him 



