| Show how to head tricky animals here are some useful and suggestive hints in breaking or managing a horse however intractable or stubborn his temper may be preserve your own almost every fault he has arises from ignorance be patient with him teach and coax him and suc success cessy in time is certain there are tricks however which alethe result of confirmed habits or viciousness and these sometimes require i re a different treatment A horse accustomed to starting and running g away may be effectually cured by put putting him to the top of or his speed on such occasions and run nning till pretty etty thoroughly exhausted A horse that had it a trick of pulling his bridle and breaking it was at last reduced to better habits by tying him ti tightly to a stake driven on the bank of a deep astrea stream tm with his tail pointed to the water be commenced pulling i illing at the nailer halter which suddenly parted over the bank he tumbled and after a somerset or two and floundering awhile in the water he was satisfied to remain remain at his post in futures future and break no more bridles A ram has been cured of butting everything and everybody by placing an unresisting 1 effigy in in a similar position the sudden assault 0 on a wl wintry try day then resulted in tumbling his into a cold hath bath which his improved manners took good care to avoid in future A sheep killing dog has been made too much mue h ashamed ever again to look a sheep in the face by ayin w his hind legs to a stout ram on the brow of a hill while the flock were quietly feeding at al the bottom the ram being tree free and in haste to rejoin his friends tumbling and thumped master tray poin ray so 0 sadly over the stones and gullies that he was quite satisfied to confine himself to cooked mutton thereafter mans reason was given him to lo control the beasts of the field and birds of the air by other mean than by force if he will bring this into play he will have no difficulty in meeting and overcoming every emergency of 0 perverse instinct or bad habits in the dumb thin thing by his superior cunning |
