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few times, always putting up the same foot, and lie 

 will soon learn to travel on three legs, so that you 

 can drive him some distance. As soon as he gets a 

 little used to this way of traveling, put on your 

 harness and hitch him to a sulky. If he is the 

 worst kicking horse that ever raised a foot, you need 

 not be fearful of his doing any damage while he has 

 one foot up ; for he cannot kick, neither can he run 

 fast enough to do any harm. And if he is the wild- 

 est horse that ever had harness on, and has run away 

 every time he has been harnessed, you can now hitch 

 him to a sulky and drive him as you please. If he 

 wants to run, you can let him have the lines, and 

 the whip too, with perfect safety ; for he can go but 

 a slow gait on three legs, and will soon be tired and 

 ready to stop ; only hold him enough to guide him in 

 the right direction, and he will soon be tired and 

 willing to stop at the word. Thus you will effect- 

 ually cure him at once of any further notion of run- 

 ning off. Kicking horses have always been the 

 dread of everybody ; you always hear men say, 

 when they speak about a bad horse, " I don't care 

 what he does, so he don't kick." This new mode is 

 an effectual cure for that worst of all habits. There 

 are plenty of ways by which you can hitch a kick- 

 ing horse, and force him to go, though he kicks all 

 the time; but this don't have any good effect 

 towards breaking him, for we know that horses 

 kick because they are afraid of what is behind 

 them, and vv^hen they kick against it and it hurts 

 them, they only kick the harder j and this will hurt 



