The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

24 The Management and Treatment of the Horse,
hatred, and ill-will. It will do him no good to strike
a blow, unless you can scare him, but if you can succeed
in scaring him, you can whip him without making
him mad. Fear and anger never exist together in the
horse, and as soon as one is visible, you find the other
has disappeared. As soon as you have frightened him
so that he will stand up straight, and pay some atten-
tion to you, approach him again and caress him a great
deal more than you whipped him, then you will excite
the two controlling passions of his nature—love and
fear—and he will love and fear you too, and, as soon
as he learns what to do, will obey quickly." Although
I have given at some length Powell's and Barey's
systems of training wild horses, yet in a country like
England there ought not to be wild horses to tame.
The Arabians manage their young horses much better
than we do. They having no other house but a tent
to live in ; this also serves them for a stable, so that
the mare, foal, husband, wife, and children, lie all
together indiscriminately. The little children are often
seen upon the body or neck of the mare, which con-
tinues inoffensive and harmless, permitting them to
play and caress it without injury, They never beat
their horses, but treat them gently ; they speak to
them and seem to hold discourse with them. They
use them as friends. They never try to increase
speed with whip or spur, unless in a case of great
necessity ; however, when this happens they set off
with amazing swiftness, and leap over obstacles with
the agility of a buck, and if their rider happens to fall,
they are so manageable that they stand still in the