HALTERING HORSE. 



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required, a knot may be made with that part of the rope 

 which serves as a leading rein, at the ring through which it 

 passes ; so that the nose-band of the halter may not squeeze 

 the horse's jaws together (see Fig. 20). 



The rope employed should be 

 soft, and not too thick ; so as to 

 allow the knots to be made with 

 facility. 



The reader will observe that 

 this halter which I have devised 

 is only an improvised adapta- 

 tion, which need not take half a 

 minute to make, of the ordinary 

 halter. I have no doubt that 

 others, prompted by necessity, 

 like myself, have hit on this 

 rough-and-ready method ; al- 

 though I have never seen any- 

 one else make a halter in quite 

 the same manner as I have 

 described. 



Fig 20. — Rope, halter Avitli 

 knot, to prevent it pinching the 

 horse's jaws. 



Haltering a loose horse. — Let us suppose that the 

 animal is in some suitable enclosure, such as a yard, loose 

 box, or small paddock ; for it is almost needless to say, that 

 if he were at liberty in the open, and averse from being 

 captured, no man unaided could possibly catch himc The 

 first thing to do is to make the rope halter — as already 

 described — if an ordinary halter be not at hand, and then 

 to get the horse to stand quietly in some convenient 



