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common that a horse will ever kick up again. 



It is to be observed, that if the horse should 

 kick up with the load of sand at the end of ten 

 miles or more, make him go at least three miles 

 after he has ceased kicking up ; but it is very un- 

 common for a horse to kick up, after the first three 

 or lour miles. If he should appear a little tired, 

 you can regulate the distance, more or less, and 

 vice versa. I believe this to be the most infallible 

 remedy known, without exposing one's self. There 

 are other remedies, which none but a good horse- 

 man can put in practice; but I write for every 

 class of men that ride on horseback, whether doc- 

 tors, lawyers or priests, farmers or merchants. If 

 this advice should save a few necks from getting 

 broken, I shall feel gratified. 



TO HANDLE A HORSE'S FEET THAT IS APT 

 TO KICK 



Put him in a pen, and go on progressively, till 

 you can handle all his feet as you would a dog's. 

 It must be recollected, that when I speak of put- 

 ting a horse in a pen, I suppose them to be of the 

 most refractory kind imaginable; otherwise, I can 

 handle a bad horse's feet, in a very few minutes, by 

 befrinuino^ at his forehead, and so on. 



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