TRAINING OF HORSES. 95 
opening, pulling it up until it draws the head pretty 
well around, and tie it with a halfhitch, Then with a 
whip start him around, (see Figure 15,) and as he whirls 
hit him first over the face with your hand, then with the 
whip around the legs, until he has whirled about three 
times around, when catch hold of the end of the rope 
and untie it. Do not let him whirl too much or he will 
become so dizzy as to fall. This is 2 powerful control- 
ling influence, and in our hands has frequently been suf- 
ficient of itself to break balky horses. Now take hold 
of the “ Yankee Bridle” and lead him along. This will 
suffice for this lesson, repeating it, however, frequently 
each day for three or four days. He is then ready to 
hitch up in harness. Place the balky horse on the off- 
side, (if on the near-side, of course reverse the whole 
operation.) Take a soft, stout half-inch rope, about six 
feet in length; tie a small loop, just large enough to 
slip on the under jaw at one end of the rope; put the 
loop on the horse’s jaw, (regardless of his tongue ;) pass 
the rope up the off-side of the neck, close to his ears, 
over and down the near-side, through the loop on the 
jaw. Tie a strap from the hame-ring on one horse to 
the hame-ring on the other. Take a stiff, stout pole, 
and eighteen inches from one end tie it firmly to the in- 
side end of the true horse’s single-tree; lay it across the 
strap running from hame to hame; tie a strap from the 
true horse’s shoulder to the pole, so that the pole can 
not get more than half-way over to the balky horse ; 
have the pole project a little beyond the horse’s mouth, 
