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PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TRAINING.

CHAPTER II. HORSE TAMING AND HORSE TRAINING—HORSE MANAGEMENT—WHIP TRAINING—CURING BAD HABITS, ETC.

POWELL’S MANAGEMENT OF WILD HORSES.

MANAGING HORSES BY KINDNESS.

TO CURE A STUBBORN DISPOSITION.

THE CORD AND LINE WEBBING.

TO TEACH A HORSE TO STOP.

TO TEACH A HORSE TO BACK.

TO MAKE A HORSE FOLLOW YOU.

TO STAND WITHOUT HOLDING.

WHIP TRAINING.

TO CURE BALKY HORSES.

HOW TO PREVENT HARNESSED HORSES FROM RUNNING AWAY.

HOW TO INSTANTLY STOP RUNAWAY HORSES.

CHAPTER III. ENGLISH SYSTEM OF TRAINING HUNTERS.

CHAPTER IV. TRICKS OF PERFORMING HORSES, AND HOW THEY ARE TAUGHT.

THE SHORT AND LONG STRAPS.

TO TEACH A HORSE TO SIT UP.

KICKING AT WORD OF COMMAND.

TALKING HORSES.

TEACHING HORSES TO JUMP.

TO MAKE A HORSE STAND ERECT.

TO “PIROUETTE.”

THE PEDESTAL.

TO TEACH A HORSE TO KISS.

TO MAKE A HORSE FETCH AND CARRY.

FINDING A HIDDEN HANDKERCHIEF.

TO SELECT A CHOSEN CARD.

TO FIRE OFF A PISTOL.

TO TEACH A HORSE TO DANCE.

TO EAT AT TABLE.

TO TURN A HAND ORGAN.

TO FEIGN LAMENESS.

TO TEACH A HORSE TO WALK OVER YOU.

ORDINARY CIRCUS HORSES.

CHAPTER V. THEATRICAL HORSES AND THE HORSE DRAMA.

CHAPTER VI. BREAKING AND TRAINING MULES—PERFORMING AND “COMIC” MULES.

PERFORMING MULES.

CHAPTER VII. SOME HINTS FOR FARMERS—MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING OF ANIMALS ON THE FARM—SOME EVILS AND HOW TO REMEDY THEM—GOOD TRAINING VS. BAD.

CHAPTER VIII. DOGS IN GENERAL—WATCH DOGS—THE SHEPHERD’S DOG.

WATCH DOGS.

THE SHEPHERD’S DOG.

CHAPTER IX. SPORTING DOGS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING.

PRELIMINARY TRAINING.

LESSONS IN THE FIELD.

WATER DOGS.

CHAPTER X. ORDINARY TRICKS PERFORMED BY DOGS.

TO TEACH HIM HIS NAME.

TO LEAP.

TO WALK ERECT.

TO DANCE.

TO JUMP ROPE.

TO SIT AND LIE DOWN.

TO BEG.

TO GIVE HIS PAW.

TO SNEEZE.

TO SPEAK FOR IT.

TO FETCH AND CARRY.

TO BRING HIS TAIL IN HIS MOUTH.

THE ROLLING BALL.

TO WALK ON STILTS.

TO GO UP AND DOWN A LADDER.

TO STAND ON HIS HEAD AND TO WALK ON HIS FORE LEGS.

TO “SING.”

THE LUMP OF SUGAR TRICK.

TO FEIGN DEATH.

CHAPTER XI. WONDERFUL FEATS PERFORMED BY DOGS—MOST CELEBRATED DOGS OF THE WORLD—LEARNING THE ALPHABET—TO PLAY CARDS AND DOMINOES—TO SELECT ANY ARTICLE DESIRED AND PUT IT ANYWHERE DIRECTED.

CHAPTER XII. TAMING AND TRAINING ELEPHANTS—CAPTURE AND TREATMENT—ELEPHANTS AS LABORERS AND AS CIRCUS PERFORMERS.

THE WAY THAT ELEPHANTS ARE TRAINED.

HOW “HUNTING ELEPHANTS” ARE TRAINED.

PERFORMING ELEPHANTS.

CHAPTER XIII. LIONS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS AND PANTHERS.

CHAPTER XIV. TAMING WILD ANIMALS IN GENERAL—SQUIRRELS—BEARS—BUFFALOES—WOLVES—HYENAS—RHINOCEROSES—HIPPOPOTAMI—CROCODILES—ALLIGATORS.

CHAPTER XV. EDUCATION OF CATS AND GOATS.

CHAPTER XVI. EDUCATED HOGS AND THEIR TRAINING.

CHAPTER XVII. PERFORMING MONKEYS—MONKEY EQUESTRIANS—THE “WONDERFUL CYNOCEPHALUS”—MONKEY ACTORS, ETC.

CHAPTER XVIII. RATS—MICE—FROGS—TOADS—FLEAS, ETC.

CHAPTER XIX. “HAPPY FAMILIES”—ENEMIES BY NATURE MADE FRIENDS BY ART.

CHAPTER XX. EDUCATED SEALS—TAME FISH, ETC.

CHAPTER XXI. THE ART OF TAMING BIRDS.

CHAPTER XXII. SONG BIRDS—THEIR MANAGEMENT AND TUITION.

CHAPTER XXIII. TALKING BIRDS AND THEIR TRAINING.

CHAPTER XXIV. PERFORMING BIRDS—THEIR TRICKS AND THEIR TRAINING.

CHAPTER XXV. SNAKE CHARMING AND SNAKE CHARMER.