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accustomed to the winkers, which, of course, make 

 every object come suddenly before him. After 

 standing for a time, and reconciled to the feel of his 

 new trappings, he should be led out, and let feel them 

 hanging about him : then trotted, that he may also 

 feel them more sensibly. When he is reconciled to 

 this, and while he is being so, the break is got out, 

 the break-horse in it, and placed in a situation, if pos- 

 sible, where a plunge or two can do no harm. He is 

 then to be led up to the break, the breaksman having 

 first ascertained, if he did not know before, what sort 

 of a mouth he has. This may be judged of by laying 

 hold of the cross-bar of the bit. The horse's own side 

 of the driving-rein should be on him, so as only the 

 coupling-rein is required to be fastened when he is 

 put in. In forty-nine cases out of fifty, the driving- 

 rein should be to the cheek with a raw or young horse, 

 but sometimes, of course, even to the lower bar. On 

 putting him alongside the break-horse, great caution 

 is necessary to prevent him touching the break has- 

 tily : the breaksman stands at the head of his horses 

 to give directions and see how things go on : one man 

 is ready to pole-piece him loosely up, while, at the 

 same moment, another puts on the outside trace ; the 

 inside one is not of the same consequence, as the 

 horse is now secured. A man now takes the breaks- 

 man's place, caressing the young one : if he is very 

 restless, let him lay hold of his ear. The breaksman 

 jumps up ; his break-horse, if he is a good, quick, and 

 powerful one, which he should be, either takes the 

 break off quite gently, or will pull off Mr. Kecruit, 

 whether he likes it or not, as the breaksman wishes. 

 The gentle mode, except with a very refractory cus- 

 tomer, is always the best, the latter being a kill-or- 



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