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horse's struggles have ceased sufficiently to 

 permit of doing so. Then the horse-breaker 

 slowly works the opening of the halter up- 

 ward and forward towards the animal's nose, 

 pulling it over the nose, and snapping the 

 buckle behind the near ear. 



A rope at least thirty feet long, preferably 

 of hemp, and an inch in diameter, should be 

 attached to the halter. The horse-breaker 

 opens the gate of the chute, lets the animal 

 come back into the corral, and takes his posi- 

 tion near the center of the ring. 



If the horse has been roped, the horse- 

 breaker should take about a turn and a half 

 of the rope around the post in the center of 

 the corral, and let the horse tire himself 

 fairly well out in his struggles to get free, 

 the horse-breaker in the meanwhile being 

 careful to give the animal as few short 

 "check ups" as possible by keeping the rope 

 taut. 



When the horse is sufficiently tired, the 

 man, after two or three attempts, if he is 

 without a helper, keeping several turns of the 

 rope around the post mentioned, goes toward 

 the horse along the rope, holding its loose 

 end in the left hand, being careful to be on 

 that side of the rope which will bring him 

 to the near side of the horse, which, if the 

 rope is taut, is facing him. He should ad- 



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