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his nose, where there is the most sensibility. Though he made a su- 

 preme struggle, I soon succeeded in this way in making liim so afraid 

 to pull that, no matter how excited afterward, he could not be made 

 to go back. The other horse submitted in a few minutes, requiring 

 but a slight punishment. Meeting the owner afterward, he informed 

 me that the horse that pulled the hardest at first never did it after- 

 ward, while he had considerable trouble in breaking the other one 

 of the habit. 



This led me to experiment upon this principle all I could. 

 When I found a bad case, I treated it, if -possible, in private, and 

 was invariably so successful that I soon became convinced that I 

 could in this way force the most stubborn pullers into submission in 



Fia 271.— As a Horse of Sullen Temper is Liable to Throw himself down when Pulling. 



a few minutes. In 'making these experiments,. I found that in many 

 cases the lesson must be repeated, in order to fully break up the 

 the habit, and that it was fatal to success to let the horse feel that 

 he could resist at any point. Nothing with* which the horse is tied 

 should give way. Even the breaking of the whip, or the > inability 

 to force to the/point of complete submission, would be equivalent to 

 defeat. In all cases the experiment should be made at the place 

 where in the habit of resisting, or as near it as possible. 



The Patent Bridle will be found to give still more power, and is 

 indispensable in the breaking of bridle-pullers, In using this, re- 

 verse the reins through the pulley, so that instead of passing back, 

 "they will run forward. (See Fig. 273.) Now, the moment the 

 horse pulls, the punishment upon the head, becomes so severe that 

 he will be afraid to repeat it. 

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