202 HOW OBEDIENCE IS TAUGHT 



At first the horse who does not know us, and 

 probably has been ill-treated before, believes that 

 we also will be like the others who ill-treated him. 

 Therefore he may seek to escape and to attack us 

 by kicking and making reactions. These reactions 

 should not be taken into consideration but should 

 be tolerated and not punished. Seeing that he is 

 not punished he soon quiets down because he un- 

 derstands perfectly well that to go quietly causes 

 less fatigue, and he ceases to belieye that we ap- 

 proach him in order to ill-treat him and acquires 

 trust and confidence in us. 



Wat/ of showing the horse our superiority. 



He is shown our superiority by gradually and 

 little by little preventing him from doing as he 

 Avould wish ; by giving him some punishment if 

 lie does not do what we Avish him to do, or if he 

 does what we do not wish, but he must always 

 l)e imniediiitoly pacified by caresses so that he 



