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merely a different mode of applying the keys which form a part of 

 every breaker's bit. 



REAEING HORSES. 



There are several remedies for rearing horses. The best we know 

 of is to make them rear on firm turf, and then, slipping off side- 

 ways, pull them over backwards. It is, however, a feat requiring 

 some dexterity, and is best left to a professed breaker. Others knock 

 the horse down by a blow between the ears with a stick or a soda- 

 water bottle, which last has also the effect of frightening the horse 

 by the deluge of water. 



A correspondent thus details his experiences \vith a confirmed 

 rearer and kicker. He says : "He was brought out into a soft 

 meadow, and then put into a cart — to which he seemed to have no 

 objection — but the instant it was proposed to move he commenced 

 kicking in first-rate style, which I stopped with some difficulty by 

 holding his head up. His near foreleg was then strapped up a la 

 Earey, with a stirrup-leather — which is as good a thing for the 

 pui'pose as can be found — and a long rope fastened to the snaffle on 

 the off-side and brought under the pad to the near ; he was urged to 

 move on, made an abortive attempt to kick, and then reared perpen- 

 dicularly, when with the rope I brought him over backwards (cart 

 and all), and, before he could recover himself, clapped hobbles on 

 him. drew him all up in a heap, and so left him for twenty minutes. 

 At the end of that time I loosed him, and let him stand for a time 

 to stretch himself, and then into harness again ; when a ditto of the 

 above scene was repeated, except on this occasion, after tying up, I 

 sat on him, and patted him, and talked to him, &c., but kept him a 

 little longer (say half an hour) in duresse, and then into harness 

 again, when he drew about a hundred yards, and stopped to kick — 

 but having the long rope before spoken of attached to his off-fetlock, 

 I drew his leg up by main force, which stopped his kicking ; and, 

 having done so, I strapped his leg up, and tried to make him draw 

 on three. This time he did not attempt to rear, but made twenty 

 or thirty of the most tenific plunges forward. I stopped him by 

 hanging on to the rope when he was in the air, and so bringing him 

 down on his nose — a regular cropper ! when he was again tied up for 

 half an hour. From this time his struggles got weaker, but I kept 

 at him all day, and by evening he drew the cart loaded. The fol- 

 lowing day the fight recommenced, but he was much more easily 

 subdued ; and that evening I put a saddle on him, and rode him five 

 miles." 



Again : Get a penny slip (that is, a thin cord, with a noose at 



