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gets between the shafts ; it being easier, as 

 Professor Sample used to say, to break a horse 

 than to break a horse and trap. Besides this, it 

 is impossible, in many cases, to directly apply 

 breaking methods to animals in harness, in the 

 same manner as we can do in saddle. For 

 instance, if a trapper be accustomed to jib, as 

 soon as it comes to a stiff incline ; to back into 

 the ditch, or fence ; and, then, to proceed to kick 

 the vehicle to pieces ; all that the breaker can 

 do, is to take it out, and endeavour to, indirectly, 

 counteract the fault in some convenient place. 

 He may succeed, to all appearance ; although the 

 pupil may forget the instruction received, if 

 anything goes wrong, such as an abrupt halt, 

 which cannot always be avoided, the first time 

 the horse is driven up a hill in a crowded 

 thoroughfare. In such a case, if the animal 

 " shows fight," it will, almost to a certainty, 

 gain the victory, and the good influence of the 

 previous teaching will be lost. For vices un- 



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