282 EDUCATING THE HORSE. 



few lessons will convince the horse that it will 

 be greatly to his advantage to abandon the habit. 



Take a cord twenty feet long, divide it in the 

 center, place it back of the ears, bring it down 

 and cross it in the mouth, then bring it up be- 

 tween the eyes, placing a ring or loop there ; now 

 bring it back through a ring attached to the 

 head-stall between the ears, then bring both ends 

 of your cord under the saddle of the harness 

 and along the back, to a ring slipped over the 

 crupper against the hip-strap ; bring the cords 

 through the ring down to the shaft on each side 

 of the horse, observing to leave just slack enough 

 so that your horse may not be too much con- 

 fined. The cord used may be quite small, so that 

 it is strong-. 



Now when your horse makes an attempt to 

 kick he will find a severe punishment immedi- 

 ately meted out to him, and thus, finding his at- 

 tempt fruitless as well as painful, he will be made 



