CRUPPER LEADING-REIN. 



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in a caressing manner. As a rule, the horse will at first 

 try to avoid the blows by running back, or by swerv- 

 ing to one side or to the other ; but failing to escape 

 from the inflicted pain, he will almost invariably go 

 forward. This desired effect is obtained usually in not 

 longer than ten minutes. Three or four lessons will 



Fig- 97. — Knot in crupper leading-rein. 



generally be sufificient to make the horse come up to one 

 the moment the whip is pointed towards his breast. I need 

 hardly say that learning to obey this signal, and that of 

 standing still as a statue on hearing the word " steady," 

 are two very desirable accomplishments in the horse. 



