. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). THK llOliSK. 199 manageable. I now tnuk him uiitsidi; tlio <ity to know- definitely what he would bear in the street. Upon carefu
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). THK llOliSK. 199 manageable. I now tnuk him uiitsidi; tlio <ity to know- definitely what he would bear in the street. Upon careful trial he proved entirely manageable, when I drove him back. I now trained him to stop, turn right and left, to the mo- tion of the whip, continuing the lesson al)Out ten minutes, resting as long, then repeating until he would turn right and left as desired. I employed every spare moment in this way up to 12 o'clock, when I hitched him up without reins, letting shafts go against the quarters, and drove to the square, where there was a large crowd, and proxcd. Fio. 169.—An incident of the Malone Horse. Result of an effort by a horse-breaker to drive him. him perfectly gentle. For several days, each time, before hitching up, I tested him by running the shafts against his quarters, to remind him of his lesson; otherwise he was treated with great care and kindness, being quieted down by petting, giving apples, etc. I explained to the class that, in the management of this and all other cases of like character, it Avould be necessary, after a spell of idleness, to remind of the lesson by a slight repetition of treatment. I sold the horse to a leading horseman, A. S. Robins, who had been a member of the class, and who had wit- nessed all the ^details of the treatment. I especially ex- plained to him the necessity for this case. Upon my leav-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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