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tails, or touched their quarters, by the means 

 described ; and by gentling those parts when the 

 animal was tied head and tail (see page 203). I 

 have met some cases, in which the kicking was 

 caused by pain due to pressure on melanotic 

 tumours that were on the under surface of the 

 dock. 



Hangmg against the pole. — The remedy, here, 

 would be driving with the long reins. For the first 

 few times that the animal was driven with another 

 horse, he might have a pair of reins to him- 

 self, as well as the pair which connects him to 

 his fellow. 



Jibbing. — We should break the unharnessed 

 horse of jibbing in the manner described in 

 Chapter XIL, and may then put him in a light 

 trap, inside the enclosure, and try to circle him, 

 with the long reins, on the side to which he more 

 readily bends. Having accomplished this, we 



