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grain or water is delivered, and till the horse can be 

 bridled, muzzled, harnessed, or dressed, as the case 

 nifiy be. He is, of course, to be released after you 

 leave the stall, but the rope remains in place ready for 

 use. 



If you can obtain something that is exceedingly 

 disagreeable to the taste of a horse — some bitter herb 

 — saturate a piece ol cloth, and wind it around a stick 

 for him to bite ; it will often, in connection with kind 

 treatment, have a tendency to break him. A single 

 short cut across the mouth on the instant will some- 

 times do good. 



KICKING. 



This, as a vice, is another consequence of the cul- 

 pable habit of teasing the horse. There is no cure for 

 this vice when it is inveterately established, and he 

 cannot be justified who keeps a kicking horse in his 

 stable. He is never safe, or relied on as being safe. 

 It is foremost in the point of danger, and no treatment 

 will always conquer. An awkward man is always 

 sure to receive injury from a confirmed kicker, and a 



