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word. I have failed but once in handling baulky 

 horses, though I have handled a large number 

 of them. By repeating the same operation every 

 day for a week, usually breaks up this most 

 perplexing habit thoroughly and permanently. 

 Another method which often proves successful, 

 is to tie the tail of the horse fast to the shaft-bar, 

 unloose the traces, securing them so that they 

 will not get under his feet. Now start him up ; 

 as soon as he finds his tail fast he will pull the 

 wagon by that appendage ; repeating this a few 

 times will often cure the habit. Another method 

 still will sometimes prove successful : instead of 

 tying the tail to the shaft-bar, take it between 

 the hind-legs, having a cord secured to the end, 

 and tie it to the saddle-girth; this will often 

 answer the same purpose. 



SHYING HORSES. 



Those who are in the habit of riding or driv- 

 ing along frequented roads, or through thickly 

 populated cities, can best estimate the inconve 

 nience, annoyance, and constant apprehension 

 occasioned by a shying horse. While travelling 

 along with an air of the greatest unconcern, all 

 n an instant, planting himself in an attitude of 

 affright, he comes to a dead stop, or flies the 

 road. Of the sensation of the animal at such a 

 time, we will not venture a description, but we 

 know by experience what those of the driver or 

 rider are. Shying in horses is no doubt the off- 

 spring of fear. Fear is the emotion excited by 



