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assistant a pair of ordinary driving reins attached to the 

 snaffle, and passed through the rings of the harness pad. If 

 we have seen fit to employ assistants on foot and a strait- 

 jacket, we may dispense with their aid, and get one helper 

 on the box to gradually assume command, while we follow 

 the horse round without interfering with his mouth. As 

 soon as he appears to be reliable, we may take off the long 

 reins and confine the guidance of the animal to the man on 

 the box, or get on to it ourselves. Nothing further remains, 

 before taking the horse on the road, than to teach him to 



Fig. 117. A jingle. 



start off, go steadily from the walk into the trot, or from 

 the trot into the walk, turn, rein-back, and pull-up. I think 

 this method of breaking a horse singly is much to be pre- 

 ferred to putting him first of all into double harness ; as it 

 teaches him to work independently of a companion, and the 

 fact of not having another horse near him, secures his atten- 

 tion. Besides, being more under the control of the breaker, 

 he is less inclined to contract the vices of jibbing or of 

 hanging back from the collar, than if he were put in double 

 harness. The breaker, if expert, and with only one assistant, 

 can make any horse which has been well broken to saddle, 



