502 EDUCATION OF THE HORSE. 



learn to follow closely to escape the whip and be caressed ; thus you 

 can make him follow you around without taking hold of the halter. 

 If he should stop and turn from you, give him a sharp cut about 

 the hind legs and he will soon turn his head towards you, when you 

 must always caress him. A few lessons of this kind will make 

 him run after you when he sees the motion of the whip ; in twenty 

 or thirty minutes he will follow you about the stable. After you 

 have given him two or three lessons in the stable, take him out into 

 a small lot and train him, and from thence you can take him into 

 the road and make him follow you anywhere and run after you. 



To Make Him Stand Without Hitching After you 

 have him well broken to follow you, stand him in the center of the 

 stable and begin at his head to caress him, gradually working back- 

 ward. If he moves give him a cut with the whip and put him back 

 in the same spot from which he started. If he stands caress him 

 as before and continue gentling him in this way until you can get 

 round him without making him move. Keep walking around him, 

 increasing your pace, and only touch him occasionally. Enlarge the 

 circle as you walk around, and if he then moves give him a cut with 

 the whip and put him back to his place. If he stands go to him 

 frequently and caress him, and then walk around him again. Do 

 not keep him in one position too long at a time, but make him 

 come to you occasionally and follow you around the stable. Then 

 stand him in another place and proceed as before. You should not 

 train your horse more than half an hour at a time. 



To Break a Horse from Kicking An old horse-trainer 

 gives the following directions: 



" Take his tail, part it in the middle and tie a knot in it, and 

 pass the halter-strap through the loop made in the tail by the knot, 

 and make it fast so that the horse cannot go in any way except in a 

 circle. Then take a pole and work it up and down his legs while 

 he is circling in the ring. The object is to get him used to having 

 his legs handled. Work him for about ten minutes in that posi- 

 tion, and then cut a bush about the size of a common currant bush, 

 tie this to his tail, so that it will drag on the ground, then whirl 

 him for about fifteen minutes more, then put the harness on him . 

 if he works all right, well and good ; if he does not, go through the 

 operation again. 



" Another way of breaking a kicker is with a small cord about 

 twenty feet long and about three-eighths of an inch thick. Pass it 

 over the horse's neck, putting the center of the cord on the horse's 

 withers and crossing the cord in the horse's mouth, then bring it 

 back to the hind legs, making it fast by buckling a leather strap 

 around the legs, between the pastern and the coronal joint. Then 

 fasten your line in the cord that is on the horse's neck, stand off 

 and start him; when he makes an attempt to .kick the cord draws 

 and hurts his mouth and as a horse can think of but one thing at a 

 time, he thinks of his mouth and forgets to kick. This plan is 



