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METHODS OF SUBJECTION. 



the writer, and stated that he eoiihl break any horse of 

 kicking in ten minutes, no matter how bad he might be. 

 r tokl him I Avoidd give him one hundred dollars for knowl- 

 edge that would enable me to control a kicking horse with 

 certainty m that time better than I was then able to do. 

 Assured of this, he came up as if to give me a profound 

 secret, and said, " You take a piece of rope and put it in 

 the horse's mouth and over his neck, then yank him with 



Fig. 68.- Modification of Second Form. 



it, and in ten minutes you can't make him kick." I had 

 been through that country years before teaching classes, 

 and the young man had got a crude idea of the War Bridle 

 through some of my scholars. His success in controlling 

 some ordinary cases with it, gave him confidence to believe 

 that he could break any horse. 



A gentleman who once attended my class, upon meeting 

 me years afterward, said he did not practice anything but 

 that cord arrangement. He said that once while visiting 

 some friends, and telling them what he had learned to do, 



