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and has not had his temper spoiled by injudicious 

 attempts to put him into harness, steady enough to go out 

 for a quiet drive after giving him, say, a two-hours' lesson on 

 the principles I have just laid down. Having learned the 

 single horse method of breaking, my readers will be fully 

 competent to put a horse into double harness alongside a 

 steady break-horse. There are many horses which go well in 

 double harness, but will not pull by themselves ; although 

 almost every animal which will go singly will, as far as I 

 have seen, go in double harness. On this account, and 

 from what I have already said, I would advise that all 

 horses which are intended for harness should get their first 

 lessons singly. 



For " rough-and-ready " breaking, a " jingle " (see Fig. 

 117) is an American contrivance which may be useful. It 

 consists of a two-wheeled cart with such long shafts that 

 the horse, when harnessed, cannot, if inclined to kick, hit 

 any part of the body of the trap. Proving the impossibility 

 of striking the object aimed at, tends to quickly eradicate 

 his pet vice out of the kicker, who, on becoming convinced 

 of the futility of his attacks, will seldom, if ever, renew 

 them when he is put into an ordinary cart, the body of 

 which he might easily kick to pieces if he were aware of 

 his power of evil. This fact does not say much for the 

 intelligence of the horse. My readers will see that the rail 

 on the splash-board, over which the reins pass, is made 

 specially high, so that the horse may not get his hind legs 

 or tail over it. The jingle is balanced so that under 

 ordinary conditions no weight is put on the shafts ; but by 

 filling with stones, or any other suitable material, a box 

 which is placed for this purpose in front of the body of the 

 cart, weight may be put on the back of the horse as may 

 be required. The placing of weight on the back is the chief 

 incitement to plunging, bucking, and kicking which horses 



