WAR BRIDLE— SECOND FORM. 



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than a minute. Should it be resisted very much,,it will be better to 

 resort to regular coercive treatment 



There is quite a secret in using the War Bridle. It is, first, in 

 getting the right position and distance from a horse ; second, the 

 method of pulling, which is the point here to be explained. Wind 

 the cord once around the right hand, not very tight, while it is 

 passed through the left a little in advance of the right. And now 

 for the secret : it is giving a sharp, quick jerk with both hands, like 

 the cracking of a whip ; not a long, heavy, dead pull, mind, but a 

 quick little jerk, as it 

 were, and instantly 

 slack. You will, of 

 course, place one leg 

 a little forward of the 

 other to give pur- 

 chase ; the rest must 

 be done by the force 

 of the arms only. I 

 have frequently been 

 able to illustrate this 

 by jerking heavy 

 horses around freely 

 by pulling upon the 

 cord lightly but 

 quickly with my 

 naked hands, with- 

 out the least injury 

 t,o them ; while strong, heavy men, though pulling quite hard in a 

 slow, indifferent way, could scarcely move them, and at that bruise 

 their hands quite seriously. 



I may say that in hundreds and hundreds of cases, men who had 

 joined my classes and to whom had been shown and explained every 

 point of its application, and had its effect illustrated to them, would 

 often catch the points only so crudely or imperfectly that they 

 woujd follow me fifteen or twenty miles to attend another class and 

 have them again explained to them. This is one of my reasons for 

 being so explicit in giving such full details of this principle of man- 

 agement, and which must necessarily be frequently referred to in 

 connection with other methods of treatment. . 



I am just in receipt of a letter from a gentleman in California, 

 who, in relating his success in breaking mustangs, after stating that 

 he had broken mustangs easily that had been given up by others, 



Fig. 121. — Modification of Second Form. 



