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twitch, to pay attention to the word * ' steady ! " 

 (see page in), will cure all these vices. In 

 Chapter III. I have described at some length 

 various methods to be adopted with horses 

 difficult to handle. The use of the rope-twitch 

 is singularly efficacious for making animals steady 

 to mount and dismount. Mr. D. C. Pallin, 

 A.V.D., informs me that he has invariably 

 succeeded with horses that were deemed im- 

 possible to drench, in making them drink, by 

 mounting them ; sitting well forward ; drawing 

 the head round to the off-side by the head-stall 

 with the left hand ; and then giving them the 

 draught out of a bottle with the right hand. 

 This gentleman also advises to have a man on 

 the back of a horse that is difficult to ball, while 

 the operator is giving the bolus. I need hardly 

 say that the aim of these expedients, valuable as 

 they are, is to make the horse take the drench, or 

 ball, at the time, and not to make him permanently 

 quiet, in this respect. 



