MAKING HORSE LIE DOWN. 



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teach the horse, by the pain inflicted on his gums, not to 

 bite. 



Making a horse lie down and keeping him on the 

 ground. — For making a horse He down, the following 

 method, which ''Professor " Sample informs me was invented 

 by the American " horse-tamer " Hamilton, is the best I 

 have seen, and may be described as follows : Place on the 



Fig. 72. — Horse ready to be made lie down. 



horse a surcingle which has two or three iron rings on its 

 pad, and attach a crupper to the rearmost ring. Put on 

 the horse's head a strong head-stall, and fix to its near 

 (for instance) side D an iron ring. Tie a strong cord 

 or rope by one end to the front (if there be two rings) 



