168 HORSE SENSE. 



If the horse fails to appreciate the comfortable position we have given 

 him, and attempts to get up, we must spring away from him and again 

 get him into that same uncomfortable position by pulling on the hand 

 rope as before. See cut No. 83. Now we will hold him in this very un- 

 comfortable position again a short time, to let him know that we are 

 away from him and he is unable to extricate himself. If he struggles 



again, we must do as before; but if he submits without a struggle, we 

 should never keep him long in this position, but go to him and relieve 

 him as before. By the second or third round of trial to get up, he fully 

 comprehends that when we are in close contact with him, he is relieved 

 of his troubles; also, that when he attempts to rise we are suddenly gone, 

 and he is at once in that same uncomfortable position again. 



