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been the dread of everybody ; you always hear 

 men say, when they speak about a bad 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 w^ays by which 

 you can hitch a kicking horse, and force him to 

 go, though he kicks all the time ; but this don'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 tliis 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 hitch them to 

 a rattling sulky, plough, wagon, or anything else 

 in its worst shape. They may be frightened at 

 first, but cannot kick or do anything to hurt them- 

 selves, 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 gently in harness in a few hours* 

 time. 



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