70 THE ART OF TAMING HORSES. 



horse, ' I don't care what he does, so he don't kick.' 

 This new method is an effectual cure for this worst of 

 all habits. 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 doesn't 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 will 

 only kick the harder ; and this will hurt them still more 

 and make them remember the scrape much longer, and 

 make it still more difficult to persuade them to have 

 any confidence in anything dragging behind them ever 

 after. 



"But by this new method you can harness them to a 

 rattling sulky, plough, waggon, or anything else in its 

 worst shape. They may be frightened at first, but can- 

 not kick or do anything to hurt themselves, and will 

 soon find that you do not intend to hurt them, and then 

 they will not care anything more about it. You can 

 then let down the leg and drive along gently without 

 any further trouble. By this new process a bad kicking 

 horse can be learned to go gentle in harness in a few 

 liours' time."* 



"HOW TO MAKE A HORSE LIE DOWN. 



" Everything that we want to teach the horse must 

 1)0 commenced in such a way as to give him an idea of 

 what you want him to do, and then be repeated till he 

 learns it perfectly. To make a horse lie down, bend 



'■'' I sliould not recommend tliis plan witli a well-bred liorse without 

 ll'.st laying him down, as lie would he likely to throw himself down. 

 — Editor. 



