88 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. 



five to ten minutes. When the horse has lain down, 

 take the rope that has now come over the back and 

 that you hold in your hand, and pass through the 

 ring in halter, fastening to shoulder. 



For subduing a horse let another man, you holding 

 the head, jingle sleigh-bells, shake a buffalo-robe, beat 

 tin pans, and make all the rattle he can. In this man- 

 ner, although the horse may be nervous at first, he 

 will soon be convinced that nothing is going to hurt 

 him. As soon as he discovers this, and that he cannot 

 get up, he will give up forever. When you let him 

 up, repeat the noise again. These lessons should be 

 repeated on a very nervous horse about three times in 

 order to obtain good results. If, perchance, the horse 

 is so powerful that you cannot throw him, try the 

 above in connection with my double-safety rope, 

 (Place on knee-pads, etc.) 



TO PREVENT PAWING IN THE STALL. 



Many persons are kept awake nights by their horses 

 pawing in the stall. You get up about twelve o'clock, 

 thinking some burglar is in the house. After knock- 

 ing over a few dozen chairs, stubbing your toes and 

 barking your shins, you find, to your great disgust, 

 that it is only the horse pawing in the barn. The only 

 revenge you can find is to kick the horse a few times, 

 and then go back to bed, only to be annoyed the same 

 way again in a short time. Now, this nuisance can be 

 easily remedied. Take a strap and buckle around the 

 horse's leg just above the knee. Now take a little piece 

 of trace-chain seven inches long and tie to one end a 

 small block of wood six inches long and two in diam- 

 eter. Let this chain hang down from the strap in front 

 of the horse's leg. Every time he goes to paw, the 

 block will strike his shin and cause him to wonder 



