CHAPTER III. 

 TYING HORSES UP IN THE STABLE. 



Horses should be tied up— How to fasten them properly— Tricks and 

 misdoings of Horses if let loose. 



^< OME people object to horses being tied up; but this 

 ^^^ cannot be very well avoided, because in a large stable, 

 or even where one has only got three or four horses, they 

 cannot always afford room to give them a loose box. It 

 is therefore wrong to say horses should not be tied up_ 

 Now it is rather a difficult matter to say how horses should 

 be tied up, or what to use for the purpose. A horse which 

 is fed well, and does but little work, becomes very restless 

 in the stable, and very soon gets in the way of working its 

 head up and down so as to make a noise with the ring 

 and plug, especially where iron mangers are used. 



Years ago it was very seldom one went into a stable 

 and saw anything but a rope leader, or what is called in 

 some parts of the country a halter, or chap rein. This 

 had a hole at one end, so that it could be fastened with a 

 slip knot to the head stall, then there was an ordinary 

 wooden plug to keep it weighed down. There should be 



