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on the quarters with them, and reining him back, we may 

 gradually make him bear their contact without his becoming 

 nervous or fretful. Twenty minutes will be ample to 

 enable us to effect this, even with the worst horse ; pro- 

 vided that the animal is not a mare " in season." We 

 may start the horse by " showing " the lunging whip, 

 and we may at the same time " click " to him ; so that by 

 continuing the clicking and by diminishing the threatening 

 with the whip, we may soon teach him to move off on 



Fig. 86. Driving horse on foot with reins through stirrup-irons. 



hearing the sound of the click alone, or we may teach him 

 to do so by raising our right hand. Having got him to 

 circle quietly for a few times, say, to the left, we may turn 

 him to the right-about with the right rein, which, in this 

 case, will pull his head round to the right, and his hind- 

 quarters round to the left ; making him, in fact, turn on 

 his centre. He should then be circled to the right and 

 turned to the left-about on the same principle. Every now 

 and then we may halt him by feeling both reins, and when 

 doing so, may accustom him to the word " whoa ! " or any 



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