MANAGEMENT OF VICIOUS HORSES. 33 



them still more and make them remember the scrape 

 much longer, and make it still more difficult to per- 

 suade them to have any confidence in anything drag- 

 ging behind them ever after. But by this new 

 method you can harness them to a rattling sulky, 

 plow, wagon, or anything else in its worst shape. 

 They may be frightened at first, but cannot kick or 

 do anything to hurt themselves, and will soon find 

 that you do not intend to hurt them, and then they 

 will not care anything more about it. You can then 

 let down the leg and drive along gently without any 

 further trouble. By this new process a bad kicking 

 horse can be learned to go gentle in harness in a few 

 hours' time. 



HOVl^ TO MAKE A HORSE LIE DOWN. 



Everything that we want to teach the horse must 

 be commenced in such a way as to give hian an idea 

 of what we want him to do, and then be repeated 

 till he learns it perfectly. To make a horse lie 

 down, bend his left fore-leg and slip a loop over it, 

 so that he cannot get it down. Then put a surcingle 

 around his body, and fasten one end of a long strap 

 around the other fore-leg, just above the hoof.'' Place 

 the other end under the before-described surcingle, 

 so as to keep the strap in the right direction ; take 

 a short hold of it with your nght hand ; stand on 

 the left side of the horse ; grasp the bit in your left 

 hand, pull steadily on the strap with your right; 

 bear against his shoulder till you cause him to move! 

 As soon as he lifts his weight, your pulling will 



