Identifier: firsthandbitso00ware (find matches)
Title: First hand bits of stable lore
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ware, Francis M Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horses Horses CHR 1903 PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor)
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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imits ofa book to give ways and means, methods andmanners, of educating the horse to sedatelyperform all the offices which we require of him,but the fundamental rules are invariably the same,and their results if intelligently applied, are uni-versally satisfactory. A certain amount of horsesense is required, and ordinary nerve and temper ;that is all, and every horse which successfully per-forms on track or circus ring, park, road, or rid-ing school, has learned his lesson on these generallines of instruction, which might have been ac-quired so much more quickly, painlessly, andpleasantly, had reward always been intelligible,caress appropriate, and punishment as rare, as 97 FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE prompt and severe upon occasion. Sentimentand theory are slender supports in such matters,and as you love and care for all dumb animals, sosee that in their sphere of action they performtheir tasks as you, their master, direct; promotingthus their truest happiness and best welfare. 98
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5? Ql, Chapter VIII MOUTHS AND MANNERS WITHOUT manners of the best,neither man nor horse is fit forpoHte society ; and as the one may-be judged by the words which fallfrom his lips, so may the other by the moisturewhich anoints his bars and mouth angles; for ifone would keep the horses mouth alive and sen-sitive, beware the period when moisture disap-pears, and saliva ceases to be in evidence, — alubrication intended by nature to facilitate in justsuch ways the comfort of the animal. Withoutmanners, the biped is reduced to the level of theaborigine, the quadruped to that of the wildbeast, in degree equal to their respective deficien-cies in such respects. In view of the constantlyincreasing number of horse shows, it is curiousthat so little attention is paid to these points; orthat, when these requirements are insisted upon,they form an unimportant detail under the cap- 99 FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE tion, mouth and manners also to be considered.How refreshing it would be to noti

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