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are due more to the one driving him, than to the horse himsolf. 

 The horse is a cunning animal and sizes up his driver with the ra- 

 pidity of thought, and when he is fully aware that his driver is afraid 

 of him, he takes advantage of it and runs away. If my instruc- 

 tions are fully carried out by my readers, as to the thorough way as 

 herein laid down, I am positively certain there will be no runaways. 



Question, How would you throw a horse down and hold him 

 after throwing? 



Answer, Put on your horse a good strong halter ; take a strap with 

 a ring in it and buckle around your horse's off front limb, below the 



First Position Taken in Throwing a Horse. 



fetlock joint; take a rope eight feet long and tie into this strap; 

 place a surcingle around the horse's body ; take your position on 

 the nigh side of the horse, bring the rope over the horse's back from 



