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him, is, tliat lie cannot be loosened from the restraint, 

 loMle he is resisting it. This will prove useful in all 

 future dealings with the animal. Should he prove un- 

 usually stubborn and refuse to yield, you may make 

 use of what we denominate the " Yankee Bridle.'''' It 

 consists of a common bridle head stall and a jointed 

 bit with double rings, Eig. 17. Fasten the cheek 



Fig. 17. 



pieces of the head stall to the loose rings on either 

 side and the reins or rope to the rings of the bit. 



In using this bit on a refractory horse, take a rope 

 about ten feet long, tie one end to the near side ring 

 of the bit, pass the other end, under the jaw, through 

 the offside ring of the bit, then bring the rope over 

 the neck from the off side to the near side, placing 

 it about where the collar usually comes. Then pass 

 it down the near side, and through and over that 

 portion of the rope which is between the two bit 

 rings under the jaw. Now as you tighten upon the 

 rope, see Fig. 18, you will perceive that the tendency 

 of the two rings, attached to the cheek pieces, is to 

 play loosely upon the bit and to move toward the 



