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simply impatient of control, to produce the 

 desired effect by making them lie down several 

 times ; and, with stubborn ones, by keeping them 

 down, with their heads pulled round. The latter 

 method might alone be employed, if the ground 

 be hard or slippery, or if the horse's fore-legs be 

 liable to become sprained. In such cases, both 

 the strait-jacket and throwing gear might be put 

 on the horse, who might be made to lie down 

 with the former, and have his head pulled round 

 by the latter ; after doing which, the strait- 

 jacket could be taken off, so as to give the 

 animal entire liberty to kick as much as he 

 pleased. We might use a body-piece on the 

 horse to save the point of his hip that is on the 

 ground, from getting rubbed. 



I cannot impress my readers too much with the 

 value, for overcoming stubbornness, of the fore- 

 going method, which, I believe, I have been the 

 first to use. 



This throwing gear is exactly similar in its 



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