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Title: Cross country with horse and hound
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mp it now, anyway. Meanwhile the poor horse, with wild eyes and shaking flanks, is nearly paralysed with fear. Thus the punishment, and so-called schooling, goes on. The next day, a boy being put up, with a man to help on, the poor horse jumps simply to escape the punishment. He hates the sight of a runway, and of his master as well. See him in the hunting-field a month or two later, with wild eyes and restless air. When hounds go away he is as if crazy: rushes his fences; goes on; gets a thrashing for refusing; jumps this fence; expects a thrashing and spurs at the next as a part of the programme, but smashes into it. For this he gets a whack as he lands. He grows worse and worse. His owner can hardly hold him by the curb. At the next fence he takes off too soon, landing on his head on the opposite side, while his rider goes to grass. In how likely a condition will this poor brute be to be-come a good hunter ! It is a shame that man has the power so to abuse and ruin the happiness of a dumb brute.
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Schooling Hunters 67 Does reason say we can ever make a hunter of such a horse ? We may make a jumper of him, but between such a horse and the one I previously described there is an impassable gulf. They are not to be mentioned in the same class at all. Look at the two horses going home after a run to hounds—one sad, melancholy, unhappy; the other cheerfully tired, bright, and contented. Will a horse schooled by the system herein recommended never make a mistake ? Certainly he will; but he will not blame his rider for it. He is as eager to follow the game as the rider is. The other horse would stop at the first fence and go home if he could. In one you have a boon companion, in the other a poor dumb slave. In hunting there is, or should exist, a partnership between rider and horse. The rider should make himself so agreeable to the horse that the horse will never object to the relationship. A good hunter is one that answers to the hand readily, has a good mouth, does not rush or bolt his fences,

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