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jumps ahead. This will in a short time make him afraid 

 to run back. As a precaution, it is advisable, the next time 

 he is unhitched, to have a cord on, so that should he try 

 to run back he could be caught by the cord attachment and 

 punished as before. 



Whenever I had a particularly bad case of this kind, I 



would hitch the horse as 

 before explained, but with 

 the cord or rope so long 

 that when he went back it 

 let the nose come just out- 

 side the stall. I would 

 then stand outside, while 

 some one unhitched him, 

 or made him go back. The 

 moment he w^ent the length 



Fig. 207.— First method of making a horse of the COrd, he WaS stopped 

 stand in harness without hitching. ^^j^J^ .^ j^^k, wheU I stood 



ready to punish him by hitting him 

 across the tip of the nose once or 

 twice, causing him to jump ahead. 

 A few repetitions of this would 

 make him so afraid he could not 

 be made to go back. I have at 

 different times created considera- 

 ble amusement in the management 

 of these cases by making it im- 

 possible for the owner, after the 

 experiment, to back the horse out 

 of the stall. Treated in this way, 

 the management of these cases is 

 easy and simple. 



It is sometimes quite important to have a horse stand 

 without being hitched, as there may be no hitching-post at 



Fig. 208. — Second method of 

 making a horse stand with- 

 out being hitched. 



