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command. When you are ready for him to stop, 

 say, " That will do/' and teach him to get off the 

 board at that command. If you wish to elevate the 

 fulcrum more than a foot and a half you should have a 

 longer teeter-board made, for if the fulcrum is more 

 than a foot and a half high it would throw one end of 

 the teeter-board too high and would put it on too much 

 of a slant while the horse was teetering. 



TO TEACH A HORSE TO TELL HIS AGE, ADD, 

 SUBTRACT, ETC. 



Have a small tack placed in a whip close to the lash. 

 Stand on the left side of the horse, on a line with his 

 shoulders, about four feet away. Reach forward with 

 the whip and prick him with the tack on the back part 

 of the forearm of the front leg. He will think it is a 

 fly and will raise the foot and put it down with a thud 

 in an effort to dislodge the supposed fly. / Have him do 

 this three or four times, then reward him for it by 

 caressing him. When he understands that the whip 

 pointed toward the front leg means to paw, and that 

 he is caressed for it, and while he is pawing at the motion 

 of the whip, raise the whip quickly and let the end of the 

 lash strike him under the chin, and he will soon learn 

 to stop pawing when you raise the whip. By taking the 



