104 TRAINING OF HORSES. 
If you are obliged. to drive him while you are trying, to 
break him, do not use the word “whoa,” as he is not yet 
accustomed to minding it, and it will only make matters 
worse. Shift the position of the horse and repeat the 
lesson, putting on the harness and leading to places 
where he is accustomed to refuse to stand, and teach 
him to stand in those places, as well as teaching him to 
obey the word “whoa,” before hitching him to car- 
riage. Then hitch him to a carriage inside a building, 
with the doors closed. Get in and out of the carriage, 
rattle the thills and shake the carriage, causing him to 
stand by means heretofore alluded to. If it appears 
that the habit is caused by fear of the carriage behind 
him, take him out of the thills and lead him around it, 
allowing him to examine it, and even eat oats out of a 
measure set in the carriage. Now take him out of 
doors, and if he renews his attempts to start, take him 
out of the thills and use the “ Yankee Bridle,” fetching 
him back between the thills, and say, “ Whoa!” You 
will by this means soon teach him that “ whoa” means 
for him: to stop. and stand. Repeated, he will stand 
quietly until you are ready to give him the signal to 
start. For the sake of not undoing all you have done, 
remember the caution heretofore given, to say “ whoa” 
only when you mean him to stop. 
PULLING AT HALTER. 
Place on him a common halter head-stall. Put ona 
common girth. Take a halfinch rope about twenty 
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