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and if he made an attemiDt to start, I would grab the 

 lines and set him back and show him that he must 

 stand. He started and I grabbed the lines, but one 

 glipi>ed out of my hands, and it gave him too much of 

 a side jerk, which excited and made him more restless 

 than before. It had been m}' motto ever since I Avas a 

 little bo3% never to attempt to have a horse do anything 

 without having him do it, so I tried him once more, 

 expecting if he started again to manage some way to 

 teach him that he would have to stand. But this time 

 he got the start of me. I grabbed several times at the 

 lines but "failed to make connections.'' He ran as fast 

 as he could, upset the buggy, tore loose from it and ran 

 home. I had already determined to show him that he 

 would have to stand in that very place until I went 

 back to shut the gate. When I got home I found the 

 horse terribly excited; 1 then took the linjes out of 

 the rings and ran them through the shaft bearers of 

 the harness, got behind him and intended to teach him 

 that ^Yhoa! meant to stand, but didn't more than get 

 behind him than he started to run again. I knew of 

 no appliance by which I could take the advantage of 

 him except a crude form of War Bridle, which I made 

 out of an old clothes line. About all the advantage 

 it gave more than the lines, was that it made a slip 

 loop around the lower jaw. With the aid of this clothes 

 line, in about an hour and a half of hard work I suc- 

 ceeded in subduing him and making him perfectly 

 submissive to stop and start at word of command, 

 and also to stand until commanded to 2:0. I then 



