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you and paying no apparent attention to the 

 horse, walk on in a nonchalant way — just as if the 

 circumstances were nothing out of the ordinary 

 and you assume, as a matter of course, that your 

 horse will follow quietly. If your previous atti- 

 tude toward him has been such as to win his con- 

 fidence, he will do so, for he is taking close note 

 of your behavior and is satisfied by it that he has 

 nothing to fear. 



NEUROTIC SHYING 



It happens not infrequently that people owning 

 highly-bred horses are puzzled and annoyed by a 

 vice — usually shying or bolting — which is mani- 

 fested only occasionally. A horse, for instance, 

 is thoroughly accustomed to automobiles and you 

 have driven him on perhaps twenty occasions 

 when he has shown no fear of them. But on the 

 twenty-first he evinces the most extreme terror, 

 shying badly or perhaps even bolting over the 

 roadside wall. That the fear is genuine is evident 

 to an experienced horseman and the vice is tenfold 

 worse in that we never know when to expect it. 



This vice (for which the horse is not to blame) 

 is really an hysterical outbreak, and though the 

 shyer of this class may be held in check at the 

 time by some such device as the controller, we 



