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him above the horfe, raife the horfe's 

 tail very gently, till the knot of the tail 

 gets fo far beyond the firings L L in 

 Fig II. that it may be tied down, which 

 being done, the tail may be let down 

 lower, or taken up higher at pleafure. 

 It is to be obferved, that the ligature is 

 not made on the tail itfelf, but on the 

 platted hair, at the extremity of the 

 flump. 



The machine. Fig. II. mud be made 

 of a peace of tough wood, about a foot 

 long, viz. from A to B, and about 19 

 inches broad from C to D, and 7 or 8 

 inches thick. The under part mufl be 

 hollowed, fo as to let in the horfe's rump, 

 and that the wings C D may reft on his 

 buttocks. To receive the tail, a groove 

 mufl be cut from G to H, about 3 inches 

 wide, and 3 deep at G, lefTening gradu- 

 ally both in height and breadth to H, 

 Holes muft be made at certain diftances 

 in the groove, as at H, for the ftring, and 

 a nick cut to receive the billet from the 

 fkrap K. Two buckles fixed to the ma- 

 chine, as at 1 I. 



The pad, ^c. are fufEciently defcribed 

 in Fig. I. and its references; the wood 

 mufl be flopcd off from E to C and A, 



and 



