Rong, and needs kind he treatment immediately. Caress him kindly, and if he don't understand at once what you want him to do he will not be so much excited as to jump and break things, and do everything wrong through fear. As long as you are calm
and can keep down the excitement
of the horse, there are ten chances to have him understand you, where there would

not be one under harsh treatment, and then the little _flare up_ would not carry with it any unfavorable recollections, and he would soon forget all about it, and learn to pull true. Almost every
wrong act the horse commits is from mismanagement, fear or excitement; one harsh word will so excite
a nervous horse

as to increase his pulse ten beats in a minute. When we remember that we are dealing with dumb brutes, and reflect how difficult it must be for them to understand our motions, signs and language,
we should never get out of patience with them because they don't understand us, or wonder at their doing things wrong. With all our intellect, if