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them. After working upon him for two hours, aided by 

 members of the class, and resorting to every device in my 

 power for his control, I completely failed. I was nettled, 

 yet bound to succeed, but "How?" was the question. At 

 this juncture I happened to think that turning around 

 quickly several times in succession caused extreme dizzi- 

 ness and helplessness. 



The question followed, " If I could make the horse turn 



Fig. 32. — Method of tying halter to the tail. 



around rapidly, why could I not neutralize and overcome 

 his resistance in this way?" I remembered having once 

 seen a dog in play catch his tail in his mouth and run 

 around, and it occurred to me that by tying the horse's 

 head to his tail he would possibly turn himself around. I 

 did so, as shown in cut 32, and to my surprise and satis- 

 faction he went around rapidly, and in a short time fell 

 over, dazed and helpless. Soon recovering, he jumped up, 

 turned rapidly as before, and again fell over. In course 



