. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. STANDARD HORSE BOOK. Chapter 1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. ONCE, while stopping with afarmer, as a matter of amuse-ment I took a colt that hadbecome unmanageable to him, andmade him perfectly gentle. Uponlearning what I had done, the farmerwas so surprised at the result as tooffer me fifty dollars for the thinking, I proposed teach-ing him and ten of his neighborshow I did it, in addition to otherpoints that might be of interest tothem. In this I was entirely suc-cessful, and th
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. STANDARD HORSE BOOK. Chapter 1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. ONCE, while stopping with afarmer, as a matter of amuse-ment I took a colt that hadbecome unmanageable to him, andmade him perfectly gentle. Uponlearning what I had done, the farmerwas so surprised at the result as tooffer me fifty dollars for the thinking, I proposed teach-ing him and ten of his neighborshow I did it, in addition to otherpoints that might be of interest tothem. In this I was entirely suc-cessful, and thus I was unintention-ally drifted into the most tryingand exacting field of effort thatever man engaged in, which con-tinued nearly nineteen years. Iwas necessarily forced into contactwith all sorts of people, who werecontinually trying to break medown, and in addition I had themost vicious and difficult horsesforced upon me to experiment upon ; and that I succeeded at allseems to me even now so remarkable as to be beyond belief. Butwithout realizing it, or knowing it at the time, the people who forced. Fig - Ideal Head of an Intelligent,Docile Character. 26 PRELIMINARY REMARKS. me to these trials were in reality my best friends, because proving thebest instructors to me in the world ; and the experiments upon vicioushorses were just what was necessary to give me the best opportuni-
Size: 1171px × 2134px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjecthorses, bookyear1895
