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and he will soon learn to travel on three legs so that 

 you can drive him some distance. As soon as he 

 gets a little used to this way of travelling, put on 

 your harness, and hitch him to a sulky. If he is the 

 worst kicking horse that ever raised a foot you need 

 not be fearful of his doing any damage while he has 

 one foot up, for he cannot kick, neither can he run 

 fast enough to do any harm. And if he is the wildest 

 horse that ever had harness on, and has run away 

 every time he has been hitched, you can now hitch 

 him in a sulky, and drive him as you please. If 

 he wants to run, you can let him have the lines, 

 and the whip too, with perfect safety, for he can go 

 but a slow gait on three legs, and will soon be tired, 

 and willing to stop ; only hold him enough to guide 

 him in the right direction, and he will soon be tired 

 and willing to stop at the word. Thus you will 

 effectually cure him at once of any further notion of 

 running off. Kicking horses have always been the 

 dread of everybody ; you always hear men say, when 

 they speak about a bad horse, " I don't care what he 

 does, so he don't kick." This new method is an 

 effectual cure for this worst of all habits. There are 

 plenty of ways by which you can hitch a kicking 

 horse, and force him to go, though he kicks all the 

 time ; but this doesn't have any good effect towards 

 breaking him,, for we know that horses kick because 

 they are afraid of what is behind them, and when 

 they kick against it and it hurts them they will only 



