118 TRAINING OF HORSES. 
which will be as soon as you slip the cord below the 
gambrel on both Jegs, which you may then proceed to 
do, (see Figure 21,) you pulling upon the offside line 
attached to the bridle. As he falls, which he will do 
upon the near-side, the person holding the near-side rope 
will keep it tight.. “As you stand by the shoulder, you 
reach over and take the offside rope in your hands, the 
person releasing it to you to kneel down, and, taking the 
horse’s head between his knees, hold it with the nose 
upward. With the offrope. take a half-hitch over his 
off hind-foot, and bring down his off fore-foot; take a 
halfhitch on that, and another half-hitch on the hind- 
foot, and wind the rope once around the rope between 
the two feet. This done, receive the near-side rope and 
take two half-hitches over the near hind-foot. Take a- 
strap, already prepared, about three inches wide, and 
about three feet in length, with a D fastened to each 
end, and with an inch strap about a foot from each end,. 
about three feet in length, so prepared witha buckle as 
to be made shorter or longer, as the case may require, 
to be used as a crouper; tie the strap through the D to 
the off-foot with the end of the rope. Go behind the 
horse, and taking hold of the tail between the. small 
strap and wide one, pull the wide strap as far under | 
the horse as possible, and rolling him half over, pull the 
strap up to just beyond the point of the hips; pass the 
rope on the near-side through the D of the strap, and, 
drawing the near-legs down close to the side, tie it. 
Keep him on his back during the operation. Be care- 
