8o ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



The rope employed should be soft, and not too 

 thick, so as to allow the knots to be made with 

 facility. 



The reader will observe, that this halter which I 

 have devised, is only an improvised adaptation, 

 which need not take half a minute to make, of 

 the ordinary rope-halter. I have no doubt that 

 others, prompted by necessity, like myself, have hit 

 on this rough-and-ready method ; although I have 

 never seen a halter made in quite the same manner 

 as I have described. 



Haltering a loose Horse. — Let us suppose that 

 the animal is in some suitable enclosure, such as 

 a yard, loose box, or small paddock ; for it is 

 almost needless to say, that if he were at liberty 

 in the open, and averse from being captured, no 

 man unaided could possibly catch him. The first 

 thing to do is to make the rope-halter — as described 

 in the preceding part of this chapter — if one be 

 not at hand, and then to get the horse to stand 



