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pied with sometliing else stopping- again each time 

 he begins to pay attention to ns ov to listen. 



The vice of l^acking on onv appearing before 

 him, on our attemi^ting to pull him forward, is due 

 to its having been attempted to pull him forward 

 by main force, or to his having been ill-treated or 

 punished by someone staiuling in front of him be- 

 cause he would not go forward thus giving him an 

 association contrary to coming forward. This i^s con- 

 trary to the most elementary steji required in his 

 teaching, which is that of going forward, of follow- 

 ing, feeling himself invited to advance l)y pulls at 

 the reins or lounge intermittently. 



I remember a rider whose horse stopped and 

 refused to go because he ill-treated him in the 

 mouth with the hands. When the horse stood still 

 he did not punish him. He punished him instead 

 with hands and spurs when, after a Avhilc, he started 

 again. That rider did not understand that by doing 

 this he told the horse that to stand still w^as good 

 and to go on was bad. 



The horse learns to throw up his croup and 

 kick on being touched with the spurs from seeing 



