case regardless of what I am told, for owners are so often 

 liable to forget how it is, and make mistakes. I then ask 

 "Where do yon wish the work performed?" If I think the 

 -falK- place suitable, I take my ropes there and 

 get ready; otherwise I select a place, and ask 

 that we ma)- use it. Any dry place, twelve 

 by sixteen feet, is suitable, and five men as 

 assistants are enough — a crowd is not desir- 

 able, neither is it best to have assistants 

 change places as holders, as a rule. On fresh 

 plowed ground is a good place when dry, but 

 in wet weather a barn floor is the general 

 place. Then a bed of straw or hay is used, 

 seven by ten feet, twenty inches deep, on which 

 spread several old blankets to complete. the 

 bed and hold the straw in place, close to 

 which lead the ridgling, and half hitch the 

 halter strap or chin rope in his mouth; then put 

 on your nose twitch tightly, and now place him 

 just at the edge of the bed, and he will stand 

 there until you cast him. Now put on the 

 ridgling ropes, $/% inch size, and sixty six 

 feet long, looped in the center for a collar 

 to fit the horse, and put over his head the old- 

 fashioned way, then pass both ends between 

 his legs and outward, cross the same ropes un- 

 der the first as they go back to the collar, on 

 each side, as per cut No. 7. Explained only 

 in my English or second Edition No. 3, 4 and 

 5, ridgling methods which I sell at £10 each, and do not 

 expect to put in this $2 book; and hope before I get through, 



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