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To fasten, slip the knot end through the loop end from 

 the inside out, then lay it over and alongside the lower 

 strand of the loop, passing it up between the strand and 

 the animal's leg, coming out between the two strands 

 of the loop end. This will hold it effectually, and is easi- 

 ly unfastened the next morning when the rope is wet, 

 frozen or covered with mud. 



Tie each horse's hobble about his neck as you take it 

 off, and he will carry it there all day, or, when you reach 



The Second Step in Hobbling: Twist 



One About the Other Four or 



Five Times. 



The Third Step in Hobbling. 



camp, it can be taken off and thrown into the pack or 

 wagon. If the horse is not used to hobbles, and there 

 is a tendency to skin his legs, place them above the 

 fetlocks one night and below the next. If he is mean 

 to run off with the hobbles "side line" him also by the 

 same method, that is, a front and hind foot together, 

 and he cannot go far. 



If there is anything handier about a pack outfit than 

 these hobbles for lengthening a lash rope, tying on a 

 forgotten coffeepot or a thousand and one unexpected 



