HALTERING HORSE. 



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TEACHING A LOOSE HORSE TO COME UP TO AND TO 



FOLLOW US. 



If a horse is difficult to catch when loose, we may make 

 him come up to us, by putting him in a suitable enclosure, 

 and then cutting him with the lunging whip which may 



Fig. 23. Haltering loose horse 



resemble the long whip used in circuses for regulating the 

 movements of horses, or that employed by carters below 

 the hocks whenever he presents his hind-quarters to us. 

 Having got him into a corner, we should prevent him from 

 escaping out of it, by showing him the point of the whip. 

 As soon as he understands that he exposes himself to 



