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the foal, drefs him, &c. Continue to halter 

 him when occafion requires, and lead him about, 

 as he will never forget the leflbns given him. 

 When you want him for ufe, let him be put 

 amongft a team of horfes, with a blind halter, 

 and every accoutrement the fame as other hor- 

 fes have 3 but take care he has nothing to pull. 

 Of the team of horfes two ought to be behind 

 him, and one before him; and the perfon who 

 drives fhould not meddle with him in any re- 

 fpe6l, but let the other horfes draw him about. 

 Do this repeatedly until he becomes gentle: 

 then caufe fome one to ride him: in that /itua- 

 tion he cannot plunge fo as to throw any one, 

 becaufe the other horfes will keep him from 

 rifing up. I never faw any horfe fo treated 

 inclined to throw his rider. 



Thus the breaking of this horfe has coil 

 nothings he foon becomes manageable, and 

 earns his meat: but then, alas ! he has not got 

 what is termed a mouth. To make him have a 

 mouth, the horfe-breaker puts a bridle with a 

 very large bit into the mouth of the young horfe, 

 and reins him very tight up, until his mouth 

 is fo fore, that, when he m.ounts him and draws 



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