A JINGLE. 



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to put him Into harness, steady enough to go out for 

 a quiet drive after giving him, say, a two-hours' lesson on 

 the principles I have just laid down. Having learned the 

 single horse method of breaking, my readers will be fully 

 competent to put a horse into double harness alongside a 

 steady break-horse. I need hardly say that there are many 

 horses which go well in double harness, but will not pull 

 by themselves ; although almost every animal which will go 



Fig. 117. — A jingle. 



singly will, as far as I have seen, go in double harness. 

 On this account, and from what I have already said, I 

 would advise that all horses which are intended for harness 

 should get their first lessons singly. 



For " rough-and-ready " breaking, a " jingle " (see Fig. 

 117) is an American contrivance which may be useful. It 

 consists of a two-wheeled cart with such long shafts that 

 the horse, when harnessed, cannot, if inclined to kick, hit 

 any part of the body of the trap. Proving the impossibility 



