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willing to obey and be generally docile. Operate on your horse 

 in this manner as often as the occasion requires, and you will 

 soon find him as gentle as his nature will permit. This method 

 of conquering the horse is less trouble and less danger to the 

 operator than any known, for after you haA'e tied up his foot you 

 can sit down and look at him until he gives up. AVhen you find 

 he is conquered, go to him and let down his foot, rub his leg with 

 your hand, caress him, and let him rest a few minutes, then put 

 it up again. Eepeat this a few times, always putting up the 

 same foot, and he will soon learn to travel on three legs, so that 

 you can drive him some distance. As soon as he gets a little 

 used to this way of travelling, put on harness and hitch him to a 

 sulky. If he is the worst kicking horse that ever raised a foot, 

 you need not be fearful of his doing any damage while he has one 

 foot up, for he cannot kick, neither can he run fast enough to 

 do any harm. If he is the wildest horse that ever had harness 

 on, and has run away every time he has been harnessed, you can 

 now hitch him to a sulky and drive him as you please. If he 

 wants to run, you can let him have the lines, and the whip, too, 

 with perfect safety, for he can go but a slow gait on three legs, 

 and will soon be tired and ready to stop. Thus you will effectu- 

 ally cure him of any farther notion of running off. 



This method is the best known for breaking a kicking horse. 

 There are plenty of ways by which you can hitch a kicking horse 

 and force him to go, though he kicks all the time, but this does 

 not have any good effect towards breaking him, for we know that 

 horses kick because they are afraid of what is behind them, and 

 when they kick against it and it hurts them they only kick 

 harder. By the new method you can harness them to a rattling- 

 sulky, plow, wagon, or anything else in its worst shape. They 

 may be frightened at first, but cannot kick or do anything to 

 hurt themselves, and soon finding that you do not intend to hurt 

 them, they will not care anything about it. You can then let 

 down the leg,- and drive along gently without any further trouble. 



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