. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . performances of BlindBilly were regarded as especially remarkable, from the factof his being totally blind. He is, without question, themost remarkable performing horse that has ever been ex-hibited in this or any other country. I give a very fineportrait of this remarkable horse, sketched by a leadingartist. The details of teaching a few tricks, which I give inthis chapter, will be of special interest to farmer boys, whomay desire to train their colts in this way. A horse seemsmore intelligent and tractable when trained to perform afew simple t
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . performances of BlindBilly were regarded as especially remarkable, from the factof his being totally blind. He is, without question, themost remarkable performing horse that has ever been ex-hibited in this or any other country. I give a very fineportrait of this remarkable horse, sketched by a leadingartist. The details of teaching a few tricks, which I give inthis chapter, will be of special interest to farmer boys, whomay desire to train their colts in this way. A horse seemsmore intelligent and tractable when trained to perform afew simple tricks, such as telling the age, kissing, bowinghis head, kicking up, turning right and left, or followingwith the whip, etc., all of which any intelligent boy caneasily train a colt to do. In training a colt or horse to perform these tricks, thereshould be no hurry, or effort to teach more than one thingat a time. Make the lesson short, and repeat until tbor- (333) DETAILS OF TEACHING. 83S !X! a X o CO of o •Tl o w otoo -a o 50 I—^ O ow CO. 334 TEACHING TEICKS. oughly learned, when another can be taken up, but do notcontinue the lesson long enough to excite or confuse thehorse. To Follow BY the Whip. One of the simiolest and most interesting tricks to teacha horse is to follow at the motion of the whip, without bri-dle or halter. It is even quite useful, as it teaches a horseto follow at command from one part of the barn to another,or to come out of his stall without attempting to get details of teaching this trick are given in the chapteron Colt Training. To Nod his Head, oe Say Yes. To teach a horse to bow, or nod his head, prick himlightly on the back with a pin, and continue until in his ef-fort to avoid the annoyance he drops his head; then in-stantly stop the pricking, and caress him. Repeat thepricking until the head is again dropped, when caress andgive him something of which he is fond. Continue to al-ternate in this way with the pricking and caressing un
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