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HORSE SENSE. 



But if you will bear with us patiently and follow closely the instructions 

 we will endeavor to make plain, you will soon realize how easy it is to 

 educate a little colt to the halter. 



Of course, if you have done the first part properly — got the colt's con- 

 fidence — you will have no trouble in putting a halter on its head. But 

 because you had no trouble in getting the halter in place, don't think for 

 a moment that you will have no trouble in leading it, because you will, 

 ninety-nine times out of a hundred, and this is just what you must avoid. 

 Please mark well what we have to say about the further procedure. 



Cut No. 28. 



FEEDING THE YOUNG COLTS. 





FASTENING THE COLT AT BOTH ENDS. 



After the halter is nicely adjusted to the colt's head, take about ten 

 or twelve feet of rope, clothes-line size, and tie a ring in one end or form 

 a loop in the end to make a slip-noose; then place this rope around the 

 colt's body — right around the loin and flank, running the rope through 

 the ring or noose on the under side of the body; then pass it between 

 the forelegs and up under the jaw-strap or nose-band of the halter as 

 shown in the cut No. 29. 



JUST READY FOR THE FIRST HALTER LESSON. 



Now, and not until now, are you really ready for business without 

 danger of a mistake, and if you follow instructions you will be well paid 



