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drag you to tlie other side of the box ; but he 

 will soon give in, and then you can easily place 

 the halter on his head, after which untie the 

 ' shank ' round his neck, and all is finished. 



You must now handle him, pet him, talk to 

 him, and make much of him, but do not pull at 

 the halter so as to make him fight. In half-an- 

 hour or so you can shp a leather head-stall 

 over the halter, and remove the latter. Some 

 people may say : ' Why do you not put the 

 head-stall on first instead of taking all this time 

 and bother to put a halter on ? ' My answer is 

 this : the halter is easiest put on, for the throat 

 strap in the head-stall, unlike that of the bridle, 

 is a fixture, and in placing it on the head this 

 throat strap scrapes along the skin from the 

 chin to the angle of the jaw, causing the colt 

 uneasiness ; and another drawback is, that in 

 buckling on the head- stall the colt takes fright, 

 jerks his head, and down drops the head-stall 

 at your feet : but if you put it on over the 

 halter the colt has by this time got used to see- 

 ing and feehng your hand about his head, and 



