66 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



hunting people, and seldom spend more 

 than ten minutes over them before putting 

 them in and driving them. 



For kickers, take a plough-line or cord 

 about as thick as an ordinary clothes- 

 line ; make a small noose, and put the 

 cord through the horses mouth with the 

 noose close up. Take the cord over his 

 head behind his ears, threading the head- 

 stall — and, bringing it down, run it through 

 the noose and back upwards through the 

 bearing-rein ring of the throatlash, hold- 

 ing the end of the cord, and as soon as 

 he is in the act of kicking give the cord 

 a jolly sharp jerk, and it will fetch his 

 head up quick and give him a rare 

 twitch ; rate him well with a sort of 

 yarrh I and after a few doses of this his 

 head will go up with the yarrh ! without 

 even pulling the cord. A ring at the 

 end of the cord is preferable to a cord 



