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instructions, and you will be surprised to see how quickly your horse 

 will understand that jou are not going to hurt him. 



How to approach a biting horse : Always do so with a revolver 

 heavily loaded with blank cartridges in your right hand. Advance 

 this hand toward the horse's mouth, the muzzle pointing past him, 

 60 the powder will not burn him. If he attempts to bite you, at 

 that instant shoot off the revolver. Every time he makes the at- 



Revolver used bj O. R. Gleason in defending himself from tbe 3Ioiisoii*s 



Bitingr Stalliou Rysdylc. 



tempt repeat the shooting. This causes the horse to think 

 the biting causes the explosion ; this he wishes to avoid, and will soon 

 cease to bite at you. The old theory of clubbing a horse only adds 

 to and increases his vicious temper. This is an original method of 

 my own, w^hich I have successfully used in handling Kysdyk and 

 many other vicious biting stallions. 



In leading horses in battle have the saddles made with a back- 

 strap and crupper, having an inch ring attached to the crupper ; 

 then have a strap four feet long with an ordinary driving snap sewed 

 into each end of it. While riding, snap one of these snaps into the 

 ring of the bit, then the other end of the strap into the ring of the 

 saddle. In dismounting and hitching a large number of horses 

 together, unsnap the line from the saddle and snap that into the ring 

 on the crupper of the front horse, as seen in the above engraving. 

 By this method two men are capable of controlling twenty horses at 

 one time, leading them or holding them. The only extra cost would 

 be attaching a back-strap and crupper, and the short four-foot line. 



