134 METHODS OF HORSE-CONTROL. 



If there be much difficulty in applying the rope-twitch, 

 the best plan, as I have found, is to try the effect of the 

 noose-twitch (see following paragraph). Or the horse may 



Fig. 42. — Pratt's twitch completed. 



be tied head and tail (see page 169), and it can then 

 be put on without trouble ; the animal being, of course, 

 released immediately after this is done. 



