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rarey's horse-taming. 



INSTRUCTION'S FOR PRACTICING RAREY'S METHOD. 



If you are not well accustomed to the handling of 

 unbroken and spirited horses, your first subject for practice 

 should be a comparatively quiet horse. After you have 

 repeatedly laid him down as directed, you can try others 

 more difficult until you can at length undertake those that 

 are vicious and even untamable by other methods. 



Preparations. — Supply yourself with a strong surcingle^ 

 to be buckled around the horse at the girth ; a strap^ as 



Fig. 48. — Strap with buckle. 



Fig. 49.— Wooden gag-bit. 



represented at Fig. 48, made of good stout leather an inch 

 and a quarter wide and three feet or more in length, 

 having a loop by which to form a noose, and a strong 

 buckle; a second strap^ without a buckle, but with a 

 loop made by doubling over one end of the strap and 

 sewing it strongly. This strap should not be less than 

 five feet in length, A common bridle^ with stout reins 

 and bit, will answer for ordinary horses, but for vicious 



