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use of both hind legs; he can neither get up nor stand up 

 on one leg, the thing is simply impossible. He makes 

 the attempt ; you apply one spur far back, near where 

 you have broken him to raise his leg from ; up goes that 

 leg, and the use of the diagonal rein stops the whole rear 

 in the bud. He is off his balance, and must give it up or 

 fall on his side ; he feels that and cowers at once ; or if 

 through perverseness he makes the second attempt, use 

 the other spur and opposite rein, and the effect is the 

 same; with only this difference: the loss of balance is on 

 the other side. The thing is to apply the spur at the right 

 time exactly ; although the balance is on the other side, the 

 effect is the same, he cannot get up, and will probably 

 never again attempt it; for, as before said, his memory is 

 always retentive : foil him in any attempt to do wrong, 

 and he will always remember -it. 



5th. To Stop a Whirl or Siding. Apply spur or whip 

 on the same side to which the horse whirls, gently or 

 sharply as the nature of the case may require, and raise 

 his head on the diagonal rein, and he cannot effect his 

 whirl any more than he could rear; he is simply con- 

 founded and at his rider's mercy. 



6th. Runaway. Nor can a horse run away that is broken 

 to such obedience, and over whose hind legs you have such 

 control, he being thoroughly taught to raise his hind legs on 

 the application of the spur to that particular part, and by 

 the diagonal application of the rein, repeated if necessary ; 

 the thing is to him an impossibility. Now being supposed 

 to have his hind legs under proper control, we will take 

 up the part which should have been first viz. : his fore- 

 part ; but the awkwardness of backing a horse out of the 

 stall, or rather not doing so, but turning him around in 

 the stall to get him out of it, suggested the foregoing 

 remarks, and I jotted them down as they occurred to me. 



