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everlastingly hitching at it with his tongue try- 

 ing to keep it comfortable in his mouth. Go 

 easy with them all at first, but go through with 

 everything that is undertaken. Never under 

 any circumstances try to make colts pull out of 

 a place where they have Leen stuck. One of the 

 surest ways to make him balky is to get a olt 

 stuck and then lick him because he has not 

 strength to pull out his load. More than once 

 on the soft prairie soils of the West I have had 

 the wagon wheels cut down in the sod in spring- 

 time and, after throwing off the small load of 

 hay I had on at the time, started up the team 

 of three-year-olds I was driving onto dry 

 ground, and then carried the hay forkful by 

 forkful out of the slough and loaded it onto the 

 wagon again. It was deplorably hard labor, to 

 be sure, but it paid. 



Earey was a great handler of horses of some 

 sorts and his tackle was a great invention. This 

 tackle consists of two short straps fitted with 

 D rings, a surcingle and a long rope. The straps 

 are buckled around the front pasterns, the sur- 

 cingle around the body. One end of the rope is 

 spliced into the ring in the strap that goes 

 around the pastern of the near fore leg. The 

 free end of the rope is then passed through a 

 ring on the underside of the surcingle and then 

 down and through the ring in the strap around 

 the pattern of the off fore foot. Then the rope 

 end is brought up and passed through a ring 



