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some diiSculty may be experienced, and the driver should 

 be ready for any trouble that may come up. Good single 

 drivers are only obtained after a thorough education. 

 This education requires the training to all kinds of sights, 

 and the development of a good mouth so that he will carry 

 the lines and travel in a free manner. 



BBEAKING SADDLERS 



Some persons prefer to break a horse to ride e\'en though 

 he may never be intended for a saddle horse. The object 

 of this is to gain complete mastery over the animal with 

 less trouble and risk than with other methods. No 

 outfit is needed other than a saddle, bridle, and spurs, 

 which are obtainable on any farm. After the horse is 

 thoroughly gentled and broken to lead, he should be accus- 

 tomed to the bridle and saddle in the same way as when 

 broken for single driver. The saddle should be put on 

 and taken off several times, cinched up and uncinched. 

 Working with the horse for twenty or thirty minutes in 

 this way will accomplish much. One should then put his 

 weight in the stirrups for a few times, getting on and off, 

 repeating this several times. The horse should stand for 

 a time while the rider is mounted. It should be remem- 

 bered at all times that while one is trying to break the 

 horse without bucking, he may buck, and then it is the 

 rider's business to stay in the saddle ; he must, therefore 

 be prepared. The horse may be allowed to move about 

 the corral a little, then led away from the barn, always 

 turning him toward home before getting on. He will 

 walk back to the barn in much the same way as if he were an 

 old plow horse. The rider should then turn him the other 

 way. This time it is better to have him out in the field, 



