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be secured, and by one or two twists around itself, is brought 

 backward, where it is held by an assistant. Sometimes a single 

 hobble is placed on the coronet, and the rope of this side-line 

 rims through its eye, which is turned forward (Fig. 12). 



To prevent the animal from kicking with both hind legs, a 

 King hobble, carrying the chain, is put on one leg, and the chain 

 passed through the eye of another hobble placed on the other 

 hind leg, and the rope carried forward and secured as in the case 

 of raising one single foot, viz., between the fore legs, on either 

 side of the neck, over the withers and then after being twisted 

 around itself back of the elbow, held by an assistant (Fig. 19). In 

 some instances a double side-line is used, the loop being thrown 

 over the neck, and the ropes carried backward, one towards each hind 

 leg, and passed through the eyes of hobbles placed on them, and 

 returned forward, where they are secured with a slip-knot to the 

 loop of the side-line on each side of the neck. 



For the same purpose, of securing the two legs of a biped, 

 whether anterior or posterior, LeGoff has invented a peculiar 

 apparatus, consisting of a Y-shaped roi:)e, single at one end and 

 bifurcated at the other, each of the three ends having a running 

 noose or loop. If the two hind legs are to be secured the loops of 

 the bifurcated portion are placed on the coronets of these legs, 

 and the loop of the single portion secured on one of the fore 

 legs. If on the contrary, the fore legs are to be confined, the 

 arrangement is simply reversed. 



Another excellent method of limiting the movements of the 

 animal to prevent him from kicking, and keep him quiet, is to take 

 a plate-longe, and beginning on one of his sides, at the girth, for 

 example, pass it forward across one forearm, a little below the 

 elbow, in front of him, on the other side across the other fore- 

 arm ; then backward across the thigh, or a little below it, then 

 passing it back of the animal, to the first side across the other 

 thigh, to return to the starting point (Fig. 14). Passing the rope 

 through the eye of the flat extremity of the plate-longe, the legs can 

 be comparatively well kept together. To prevent the rope from 

 dropping too low, it is thrown over the back and secured on 

 itself on the other side by a knot. This part of the rope over the 

 back supports the two horizontal portions which run on each side 

 of the animal and keeps them in place. 



This mode of restraint is but a simplification of the apparatus 



