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fully. This little animal has good and well-fitting 

 harness and a snaffle-bit. I once saw a boy in 

 difficulties about his donkey, who, instead of pulling, 

 insisted on running backwards. ' Does your donkey 

 often jib, boy ?' I asked. ' Yes, he do at a biggish hill, 

 and often he won't pull up a little one.' ' Let me 

 have a look at him.' The poor boy, not knowing any 



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\}V. Shai 



FIG. 30.— PROPERLY BALANCED. 



better, had harnessed him all wrong : the pad-girth 

 was slack, the belly-band from the shafts as tight as 

 could be, the crupper-strap at least 5 inches too 

 short, and lying along the side of the back, instead 

 of down the middle. Trussed up in this way, the poor 

 little beast could not bend his back to his load, being 

 fastened up hard and fast from the withers to the 

 tail quite sideways. I soon rearranged Ned's furni- 

 ture and vastly improved his drawing room, and like 



