. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. which he is bynature : The horse, being unable to understand the meaningof articulated language, excepting so far as words are associatedwith actions, we must address his intelligence on this plane of hisreasoning, because it is only by doing so that he can be expected tocomprehend our wishes clearly. Fourth : To the degree that the horse becomes excited, fright-ened, or confused, he must necessarily be both unable to under-stand what is required to bedone, and correspondin
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. which he is bynature : The horse, being unable to understand the meaningof articulated language, excepting so far as words are associatedwith actions, we must address his intelligence on this plane of hisreasoning, because it is only by doing so that he can be expected tocomprehend our wishes clearly. Fourth : To the degree that the horse becomes excited, fright-ened, or confused, he must necessarily be both unable to under-stand what is required to bedone, and correspondinglyless inclined to submit to re-straint in his , whatever the treat-ment, it must be of a charac-ter not to confuse or excitehim, nor to expose him tosuch excessive fear as wouldshock and derange his nerv-ous system. Taking these conditions inorder, we see, for example,that if a horse learns to pull away, break his halter, resist the blacksmith in shoeing, or runaway, etc., he will be encouraged to and try to do so afterwarduntil the habit becomes fixed. On the contrary, when a colt is. Fig. 19.—a Noted Vicious Horse. 34 PRINCIPLES OF THE AT ME XT.
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