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pull, that any horse may be excused for mistaking the one for 

 the other. 



553. — With the changed bit yoii must let the horse under- 

 stand that there is a change of discipline. You must allow no 

 inattention to the rein, but let a tap of the whip immediately 

 follow any neglected signal. You must on no account keep the 

 horse in his place by a steady pull on one rein, but if he gets to 

 one side, fetch him back to the right place quickly, with whatever 

 rein force may be necessary, tapping his shoulders with the 

 whip, and scolding him at the same time, but slacken the rein 

 directly you have brought him far enough. You may have to 

 repeat this a hundred Jor a thousand times, and may make up 

 your mind for a great exercise of patier.ce. Of course you could 

 not do this in the streets of a city, but the habit could not be 

 formed there, as in a town, a horse must be kept obedient to his 

 signals. 



554. — There is a quicker way of getting over the difficulty, 

 but it is better avoided if possible, as it is apt to still leave the 

 horse with a one-sided mouth. You may wind a strip of flannel 

 thickly round that side of the bit to which the horse is 

 inattentive. If that fails you may get a snaffle bit, cut at the 

 joint, and substitute a short bit of small chain for one side of 

 the bit. 



555. — Driving two w^ell matched horses abreast is not more 

 difficult than driving one, and it is far more pleasant and safe. 

 It will require a little more arm power, and some attention to the 

 correct acljustment of the forked reins, but two horses go far 

 more cheerfully than one. They naturally choose a space wide 

 enough for the carriage to follow ; they usually counteract each 

 other in any wayward movements, and so long as one horse 

 will not run away the other cannot. The case is not much 

 ■altered where three horses are driven abreast. It is perhaps the 

 most easy of any team to drive in a city, as wherever there is 

 room for the seen horses, the driver need not concern himself 

 about his unseen wheels. 



55(;, — Driving two or three horses one before the other is a 

 far more difficult task. It is seldom done for anything but 



