202 BAULKING OR JIBBING. 



his trick. If you have him harnessed to a light wagon on a 

 smooth road where it will afford but little resistance, you mar' 

 by repeated trials convince him that it is a simple, easy mattei 

 to draw it ; and you should continue to exercise him from daj 

 to day with the same light load, and afterward increase it 

 gradually, until you have trained him to a qaiet manner of 

 starting, or of going up a hill or elsewhere where he has been 

 accustomed to baulk. 



By the same gentle treatment you may start a horse or a 

 team that have baulked under the driving of another person. 

 Request the driver and all spectators to go to the side of the 

 road, and then unfasten the check-reins, hang the reins where 

 they will be easily accessible, but so that they may lie loosely 

 upon the horses' backs, caress them, and allow them to look 

 about and convince themselves that no harm is doing. When 

 they have come properly quiet, go to their heads and stand 

 directly in front of the worst jibber of the team, so that his nose 

 may come against your breast if he start. Turn them gently 

 to the right, without allowing them to tighten their traces, and 

 after caressing them a little, draw them in the same way to the 

 left. Presently turn them to the right, and as you do so, 

 bring them slowly against their collars, and let them go. 



Sometimes a horse not often accustomed to baulk, betrays 

 a reluctance to move, or a determination not to move. In 

 such cases, the cause, if practicable, should always be ascer- 

 tained. He may be overtaxed, his withers may be wrung, or 

 he may be insupportably galled or pained by the harness. 

 Those accustomed to horses know what seemingly trivial cir- 

 cumstances occasionally produce this vice. A horse, whose 

 shoulders are raw, or have frequently been so, will not start 



