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say " steady " it is to slack up in speed, but when you say " whoa,^ 

 it is for him to stop. 



See that his teeth are not sharp, and if they are, have them fixed 

 at once. There is no law that can be laid down for the driving of a 

 lugger only to use as gentle and soft bits as possible. 



Question. How do you educate or break a vicious kicking horse so 

 he will drive gentle and be fit for family use ? 



Answe)-. In the first place take your horse out on a soft place, or 

 on the plowed ground, and throw him down by working as follows : 

 Put a surcingle around his body ; take a strap and buckle around 

 the off front limb, below the fetlock joint ; take a rope eight feet 

 long and tie into that strap, bring it up over the horse's back ; you 

 stand on the nigh side of the horse and take hold of this rope with 



O. R. Gleasou's Double Safety Strap. 



your right hand and pull his foot to his body ; then you take hold 

 of the halter with the left hand and pull his head around to you, 

 placing your right elbow against the horse's side, using the words 

 "lie down." He may fight for three or four minutes, but if you 

 hold to his head and keep it pulled around to you he must go down ; 

 after he has been thrown, then take the rope and run it through the 

 ring in the surcingle at his back, through the halter, back through 

 the ring in the surcingle, then you take hold of the rope and if he 



