46 THE HORSE : ITS TAMING, 



colt together, and sometimes succeeding in breaking 

 the cart and not the colt. I having, when the harness 

 vv^as first put on, tied the ends of the traces through 

 the breeching rings, as shown on plate No. 8 ; 

 now take them up a few holes, tying, as it were, 

 the two ends of the animal together ; putting a fair 

 pressure on at first, and, as the colt's confidence 

 becomes established in the feel of the pressure on its- 

 shoulders and quarters, another hole on each side is 

 taken up on the traces. Now the colt is, as it were, 

 pulling hirnself along, and I have put him in such a 

 position that he can't refuse to pull ; hence 1 never get 

 jibbers b\^ my breaking, and I can cure, by the same 

 method, an)- jibber. I can recollect one that, with the 

 harness on only, lay down thirty-one times in the ring, 

 just simply falling over, and the harness did not weigh 

 more than 10 lbs., yet I made him work, and the last 

 time I saw him he was in a 'bus. 



Now the next step to take, is to teach him to 

 know the feel of the shafts against his sides. The 

 way to do this is not again to put him into a cart, 

 as from the novelty of the position, and the fear it 

 would naturally create, the colt might start to kick, 

 and in all probability would do so, and my method of 

 doing this is to take a "third hand" (letting my assistant 

 hold the reins), and with it commence to rub the 

 colt's sides and shoulders, flanks, and down its quarters ; 

 in fact, touch him all over with it, and sometimes bringing 



