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HORSE—DISEASES AND REMEDIES. 



tage by all the attention and kindness 

 possible, and you will soon have him en- 

 tirely under your control. 



HORSE. Taming and Breaking, Rarey's 

 Flan. — The apparatus which is required 

 is, first of all, an ordinary snaffle or 

 straight bit in the 

 mouth, without 

 which nothing 

 could be done 

 with any vicious 

 horse; and if any 

 animal is to be 

 "Rarey-fied," the 

 preliminary oper- 

 ation is to get this into the mouth. In 

 vicious animals, however, this is no easy 

 matter, and the best way is to entice the 

 animal up to a wagon loaded with hay ; 

 under which the operator should hide 

 himself, and while the animal is busily 

 eating, he should slip his arm through 

 the wheel, and quietly and cautiously 



'Fig. 28.— Rarey's Leg Strap. No. i 



buckle the leg strap (See No. 1) on his 

 leg. 



As soon as this is done the horse is inno- 

 cent of all mischief except with his teeth, 

 for he cannot kick on three legs, and even 

 his mouth may be kept away from the 

 operator by draw- 

 ing on the off 

 rein. To bring 

 him speedily to 

 submit to the 

 power of the oper- 

 ator, the other leg 

 must also be con- 

 fined, which is 

 effected by first buckling on a surcingle, 

 as represented in the engraving below, and 

 then catching the off fetlock in the run- 

 ning noose of leg-strap No. 2, which is 

 made in the annexed form. Provided 

 with this second strap in his pocket, and 

 having already applied the leg-strap No. 

 1, and the surcingle as shown below, the 



Fig. 29. — The Horse, with the Leg Strap and Surcingle on. 



subject under manipulation is either in- 

 duced to drop his off foot into the noose, or 

 it is slipped round his ankle, while the off 

 rein is held by the other hand to keep 

 the teeth off the operator. As soon as 

 this loop is firmly drawn round the leg, 



surcingle under the belly, and entire con- 

 trol of the horse is only a work of time. 

 The arrangement of these straps is well 

 shown in the engraving, where the horse is 

 sketched ready for the final struggle. 

 Up to this time, almost every horse will 



the other end is slipped through the | be tolerably quiet and unresisting, some 



