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MEANS OF EESTKAINT. 



formed, wliicli is thrown over the neck, while both knots made 

 he a httle below the point of the shoulder." Taking with the free 

 portion of the rope, a twist round both forearms, passing behind 

 them first, then forward across the near fore leg, in front of both 

 fore legs, and backward across the off fore leg, over the rope, it 

 is carried across the abdomen, to the near hind coronet, which it 

 surrounds from without inwards, to be brought back to the 

 posterior part of the withers on the near side, where the operator 

 takes hold of it. Then by degrees slowly puUing on the rope, 

 and making the animal raise his near hind leg by quietly urging 

 him, this leg is carried forward, with a uniform movement, until 

 at one moment, the animal attemj)ting to resist or struggle, 

 the assistant at the head carries it toward the bed, the operator 

 pressing with his body against that of the animal, until he slowly 

 settles down without injui-y on his side. To fix the leg definitely. 



Fig. 35.— Animal Secured by the Rohard M-ethod. 



one begins by the near hind leg. Making a double twist of the 

 rope around the coronet of that leg, this is carried towards the 

 loop which passes around the neck, and is there secured by a 

 double knot (a), and carried back to the off hind leg, which is then 

 carried far forward and secm-ed to the same collar loop, with a 

 single knot (h). To release the animal, it is merely necessary to 

 tmtie the stopping knot, when the rope becomes loosened from 

 the legs. 



