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ble, follow up with passive treatment. The second or 

 cold, sulky class must be treated with the third method, or 

 passive treatment. This class of kickers, though appear- 

 ing to be very bad, usually yield easily to this treatment. 

 If you subject them to the first and second methods you 

 will be likely to fail, for you cannot always make sufficient 

 impression upon the nervous system of such to control 

 and hold them under subjection as you desire. When 

 they warm up they become sulky and reckless. But when 

 this excitement passes off, and the nervous system becomes 

 cool, this temperament will invariably work in safety, 

 making a very gentle, reliable horse. I could refer to a 

 large number of remarkable cases proving this rule. The 

 Hettrick horse' of New York, the Hillman horse of Port- 

 land, with many noted horses, prove this. I often excite 

 suspicion by stating that a horse that had shown a very 

 sulky, bad character, after giving up, would be found next 

 day, when cool, to be perfectly gentle. 



There are many horses that will drive all right until 

 irritated by some chance cause. One horse is all right, 

 but will kick if the REIN is CAUGHT UNDER THE TAIL; 

 while another is all right if his head is under good con- 

 trol. If the rein irritates, and is the only cause of annoy- 

 ance, you can easily overcome the whole difficulty as 

 follows : 



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Take the crupper, and wind the part that comes under 

 the tail with a strip of flannel 

 until it is about two inches 

 in diameter. If the tail is 

 stiff and likely to chafe, cover 

 this flannel with a piece of 

 chamois-skin. The proper 

 course is to put on the crup- 

 per, and leave it on night and 

 day for a week, and, when 

 driving, for some time after- 

 wards. This crupper is so large, that the line coming 

 below it cannot be felt or held ; while leaving it on a few 

 days and nights wears out the undue sensibility of the 

 part. If the horse is nervous and sensitive, and needs to 



