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CHAPTER XVII. 



STABLE VICES. 



Difficult and vicious to catch — Hanging back on the head-stall — 

 Kicking — Kicking at night — Pawing at night — Pawing back 

 the litter — Rubbing the tail — Sleeping standing. 



Difficult and vicious to catch. — If the animal be 

 viciously inclined, make him quiet by the methods 

 described in the preceding chapters. Teach him to 

 come up to you when you call him (see page 261) ; 

 and to turn his quarters away from you, when you 

 approach him (see page '^^). 



Hanging back on the head-stall. — The Americans 

 employ the crupper leading-rein (see page 148), to 

 hitch up a horse given to this fault. I have been 





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