78 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



there is to the breaker of having any one 

 standing right behind him when he is handling 

 vicious horses ; for, in such a case, if the animal 

 make an offensive movement, the man will 

 probably knock up against the other, and thus 

 fail to get out of harm's way. 



Making a rope-halter. — The simplest way to 

 do this is to take a half-inch rope, about 9 yards 

 long ; make it double for about 3 ft. 6 in. ; put a 

 knot on the doubled part, so as to form a large 

 loop, in which make a small loop, for the leading 

 rein to pass through. The second knot should 

 divide the large loop, so that the head-piece 

 should be about twice as long as the nose-band. 

 The halter will now be ready to be put on (see 

 Figs. 4 and 5). The nose-band may be made 

 sufficiently long, and the loop through which the 

 loose end passes, tight enough to prevent the 

 nose-band and leading rein (the free end of the 

 rope), forming a running noose, which might hurt 



