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Those persons who have the management 

 of colts should frequently take up their feet, 

 and beat them gently round the edges with a 

 sm^ll v/ooden hammer, which will prepare 

 them, in some measure, for being shod *, and 

 when that operation is performied they will 

 stand more quietly. Young horses are fre- 

 quently so alarmed at the process of shoeing, 

 that it cannot be done without the trouble of 

 throwing them y or if it be effected without 

 this, it is v/ith great difficulty j and from the 

 sudden struggles of the horse to pull his feet 

 away, he is often pricked, which not only 

 frightens him, but injures the foot. 



When it is intended to break in a horse, a 

 cavison is first put on his head. It is made 

 like a collar, with a strong piece of iron out- 

 side the leather strap that goes round the muz- 

 zle, and in it are fixed three iron rings, one in 

 front, for the longe, and one at each side for 

 the side-straps. No side-straps are used at 

 first, but the longe only, v/hich is a long cord, 

 tied, or, for the convenience of easily undoing 

 it, buckled into the ring in front. With this 

 and a snaffle, knotted and laid loose over the 

 neck, he receives his first lessons on the circle 



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