. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. -. Fin. 33.^.—The Last Days of the old Family Horse. Chapter XII. THE MULE. TTTE frequently had mules brought in to experiment upon, and\/\/ often found them exceptionally good subjects. A mule when vicious is supposed to be not only very dull but extremelybad, and if the treatment is not made right, becomes really verydifficult to manage ; but when managed according to the experienceof our later years, we always found this animal among the very best. Pig. 326.—a Favorite Mute. of subjec
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. -. Fin. 33.^.—The Last Days of the old Family Horse. Chapter XII. THE MULE. TTTE frequently had mules brought in to experiment upon, and\/\/ often found them exceptionally good subjects. A mule when vicious is supposed to be not only very dull but extremelybad, and if the treatment is not made right, becomes really verydifficult to manage ; but when managed according to the experienceof our later years, we always found this animal among the very best. Pig. 326.—a Favorite Mute. of subjects. No matter how bad the character of the mule, or howvicious the resistance, he always works in, in a short time, entirelygentle. The treatment we used with most success at first was theSecond Method, and it was rare that we found one that did not sub-mit to this readily. However, it was not in all cases the clear suc-cess we could desire, and we then depended upon the simpler meth-ods of treatment, making sometimes a good deal of work ; but when (363) 264 THE MULE. we struck the Third Method in connection with the Second, wefound mules to yield to treatment very readily. I have in mind twocases which will fairly illustrate others. When I was in Cleveland, O., after having very decided success for a week or two, the subjectionof the Malone horse in the firstplace attracting very wide at-tention, parties from the WestSide brought over one eveningan extremely vicious mule, theyfeeling sure that it would breakme down. I was asked if mytreatment wou
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