Thereafter it was a matter of making him a horse of finished education.

He was taught not to trot, but to go directly from the walk to the "lope." He acquired a swift walk and a sort of running trot--that is, he trotted behind and rose in front with a wolflike action of the fore feet.

He was guided by the touch of the rein on the neck or by the pressure of his rider's knee on his shoulder.
He was taught to stand without hitching and to allow his rider to mount on either side.

This was a trick which Harold learned of a man who had been with the Indians.

"You see," he said, "an Injun can't afford to have a horse that will only let him climb on from the nigh side, he has to get there in a hurry sometimes, and any side at all will do him." It was well that Jack was trained early, for as they drew out on the open prairie and the feed became better the horses and cattle were less easy to drive.