Teaching A Horse To Stop

When I got a new horse, and that is not very often, I wake it my business to teach that horse to stop suddenly when I first say whoa. By gcntly jorking the lines the horse soon begins to understand you. He should bc tirst taught to stop while walking ; then topped on a gentío trot, and tinully when driven rapidly. - Any horse in the world can be taught to stop, by a short, sharp whoa, without drawing on the lines. And they ahould learn to do this just as quickly as they can. Prosently, no matter how frightened the horse is, he will stop when L# hears the word. Many horaes become unmanageable when they get their tails over the lines ; so if anything touches thoir heels, uway they go. To a horsc properly taught, the word of the driver should be as potent as the stoutest lines. Let me illustrato the vulue of my suggestions by rulating what I have saved in this way. Kot long since I purchased a spirited young horse, and the lirst lesson I gave him was to stop when I spoke to him. Soon after, I hitched him into the buggy and got into it with all my i'umüy. I dare not say how many of us there were, lest some of our readers should envy mo. Enough, that with what I had by my side, and on my lap, I could scarcely Bee the horse. Au unlucky whisk of the horse's tail brought tho lines under it, and quicker than I can teil you, tho horse made two suddeu bounds, and would have run away, but my timèly " whoa," brought ererything up standing ; and I found tho lines as fast under the tail as though it had been a vice. The united strougth of my whole family could hardly havo pulled it out. After standing a moment they caini! out of themselves. The whole family breathed easier, and the reporters of the daily press lost a good item. Ono day my horso and buggy were standing in front of my office, and a heeóTless expressman drovo up with a top wagon and fairly ran upon my establishment The ttuttering of tho expressnian's curtains and tho rattling of his rickety wagon frigtened my hosre so badly that he new back, tore tho bits out of his mouth, broke his hitching strap and started on a run. Looking out of tho window, I saw with most indignant eyes the whole transaction. I sprang to the door and spoke a sharp, loud " whoa." And though I waa some flve or sis. rods from the horse, he stopped as though he had met a stono wall in his road. I breathed easier again, for I had saved fifty or seventy-fivo dollars, the amount of the threatened smash up. Anothor day, my horse standing hitehed and kicking nies, got his feet entangled and feil down. While struggling to riso tho rump strap broko, and feeling himself loose he sprang to his feet and started on a lively run, with the buggy in the rear. An old farmer gcntloman just passing cried out " whoa !" " My gracious, mister," said he, " I never saw tho liko of that ; why, if I had had hit that horse over the head with a club ho wouldn't have stopped any quicker. Fine horse,. well brokon ; boon one of my horses, sir, your wife Aould have had plenty of kindlang wood. Never stopped