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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: He soon found out that I was willing to work and do my best,
and he never laid the whip on me unless it was gently drawing the end of it
over my back when I was to go on; but generally I knew this quite well
by the way in which he took up the reins, and I believe his whip
was more frequently stuck up by his side than in his hand.
In a short time I and my master understood each other as well
as horse and man can do. In the stable, too, he did all that he could
for our comfort. The stalls were the old-fashioned style,
too much on the slope; but he had two movable bars fixed across
the back of our stalls, so that at night, and when we were resting,
he just took off our halters and put up the bars, and thus we could
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