116 TRAINING OF HORSES. 
he is down, (see Figure 20,) which will occupy from one 
to five seconds. As he goes down, lying upon the near- 
side, you keep the rope tightened, and he can not get 
up. By repeating this, you will soon make him quite a 
trick-horse, as he will learn to lie down by simply pull- 
ing upon the off bridle-rein. Throwing is often neces- 
sary in surgical operations, and as the horse may be 
thrown on either side, and with perfect safety, by this 
plan, we consider it preferable to the former way of 
throwing him by main strength. 
Another very good plan, and in some respects more 
convenient, especially where it is desirable to tie the 
animal when down, is to take about a four-inch ring, 
Sew into it two straps, one about three feet in length and 
two and a half inches wide, with a double-tongued 
buckle sewed on the other end; and the other strap 
about one foot long and the same width, with holes 
punched to fit the buckle; take a rope about. eighteen 
feet in length, and loop the centre on the ring. Strap 
up the near-leg of the horse you are to operate upon, 
and place on him a strong bridle, with the check-pieces 
tolerably short. Buckle the wide strap around the 
neck, with the ring upon the breast; pass the rope be 
tween his fore-legs, and thence between his hind-legs, 
fetching the ends of the rope again forward by bring- 
ing them on the outside of each leg above the gambrel ; 
and passiug them on the outside of the fore-legs, put 
them through the ring from the inside. Have a man 
hold of each rope, prepared to pull as you say, “Ready!” 
