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follow up his movements without doing much holding." 

 Can you, with two reins or straps in each hand, besides 

 the switch or pig- whip ? Why, I conclude this would be 

 harder work than driving a four-horse coach with kickers 

 and balkers. But to proceed. " And as soon as he stops 

 running backwards, you are right with him, and all ready 

 to go ahead ; and if he gets stubborn and does not want 

 to go, you can remove all his stubbornness by riding 

 your horse against his neck, thus compelling him to turn 

 to the right ; and as soon as you have turned him about 

 a few times he will be willing to go along." 



Here is a precious process, indeed ! Just fancy 

 meeting a travelling-carriage with four posters in a narrow 

 road while engaged in this game of pully-hawly with a 

 raw colt and a broke horse. Then we are told " how to 

 lead a colt into the stable and hitch him without having 

 him pull on the halter," which may be summed up thus : 

 if you cannot persuade the colt to follow a broke horse, 

 " take hold of the halter close to his head with your left 

 hand, and with your right arm reaching over his back 

 tap him on the off side with your switch, reaching as far 

 back with it as you can. This tapping will drive him 

 a-head, and keep him close to you. Then, by giving 

 him the right direction with your left hand, you can walk 

 into the stable with him. Never attempt to put the colt 

 into the stable, that would make him think at once that 

 it was a dangerous place, and if he was not afraid of it 

 before, he would be then." 



Then " if you want to hitch your colt put him in a 

 tolerably wide stall, which should not be too long, and 

 should be connected by a bar, or something of that kind, 

 to the partition behind it, so that after the colt is in he 

 cannot ^^t far enough back to take a straight backward 



