If a horse stops, and refuses to go, or runs back, go up before him,
handle him in the forehead and coax him. If he is not an old offender,
he will go off in about fifteen minutes. If he has been spoiled for a
long time, it requires more patience to correct him.
[Illustration: THE HORSE TAMED.]
A MODE OF BREAKING WILD HORSES, VERY DIFFERENT FROM THAT DISCOVERED BY
ME.
I have seen a wild horse taken and shut up in a stable. The man who was
to gentle or tame him, took a whip, such as a coachman uses, and went in
to him; and, as the horse was frightened, and ran away from him, he fell
to whipping him most unmercifully. At the end of half an hour, the
horse, seeing it impossible to escape the whip by running away, advanced
towards the man who had been his persecutor. The man threw down his
whip, and began to handle him; but the horse, at the end of a few
minutes, began to be refractory, when he took it up again, and repeated
the lesson with so much severity, that the horse soon came back to him.
This he continued for some time; when, at the end of about two hours, he
saddled the horse and drove him about with his whip, making him come up
to him every now and then, till at last he mounted him and rode off very
well. I observed, that the horse frequently trembled, when he went to
get on him, notwithstanding he rode him off pretty well; he appeared to
be afraid of many objects he met with, and was far, very far from being
that gentle, docile animal, tamed by the simple, natural means made use
of in my method of breaking horses. Besides this, those horses do not
remain gentle. I speak from experience.