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you will have effectually mastered his disposition to 

 run, or try to get away. I have seen horses, totally 

 unmanageable from their vicious propensities, so 

 gentled by this process that in a few hours they might 

 be driven anywhere with perfect safety ; and one 

 great advantage of the plan is, that the results are 

 permanent 



B[o\r to I>rive a, Kicking: Horse. 



It must be remembered that this is a vice foremost 

 in point of danger. A vicious kicking horse is more 

 dangerous than one possessed of any other vice. If 

 your horse is a little nervous, lie him down with your 

 surcingle, and gently harness him as though he were 

 ever so kind. Then put on your ten-cent cord bridle. 

 This is made by taking a half-inch cord twenty feet 

 in length ; get the centre, and loop two gang-runners 

 one foot apart ; now place it on the horse's head just 

 back of his ears, with loop on each side ; the ends are 

 brought down, crossed through the mouth, and back 

 through the loops above. Now your bridle is ar- 

 ranged on his head. Take the ends (after brought 

 through the gang-runners) back through the turrets 

 of your pad ; place your horse between your shafts ; 

 buckle the belly-band close, so your shafts cannot 

 rise ; then place a pnlly on the top of the shafts, each 

 side of the horse's quarters ; make them fast. Then 

 bring the cords from the turrets that are attached to 

 the pad under the wheels of the pulley, over the 

 horse's quarters, and make them fast Your horse is 



