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judgment to know when he is choked sufficiently, as there is a bare possibility 
that he might get more than would be good for him. We advise persons not 
perfectly familiar with a horse to resort rather to the strapping and throwing- 
down process (unless he is very vicious) described below; this, in ordinary 
cases, will prove successful. It is the fault of most people who have owned a 
horse to imagine that they are expert in his management; while, on the con- 
trary, many professional horsemen are the very worst parties to attempt a sub- 
jugation, Unless a man have a good disposition, he need not attempt horse- 
taming. 
In practicing the method exhibited in fig. 55, retire with the animal to be 
operated upon into a close stable, with plenty of litter upon the floor (tan-bark 
or sawdust is preferable). In 
the first place fasten up the left 
fore-leg with the arm strap, in 
such a manner that it will be 
permanently secured. Then 
take a broad strap and buckle 
and pass it around the neck 
just back of the jaw-bone. 
Draw the strap as tight as 
possible, so tight as to almost 
arrest the horse’s breathing. 
The strap must not be buck- 
led, but held in this position 
to prevent slipping back. The 
animal will struggle for a few 
minutes, when he will become 
perfectly quiet, overpowered 
by a sense of suffocation; the 
veins in his head will swell; his eyes lose their fire; his knees totter and be~ 
come weak ; a slight vertigo will ensue, and growing gradually exhausted, by 
backing him around the stable, he will come down on his knees, in which po- 
sition it is an easy matter to push him on his side, when his throat should be 
released. Now pat and rub him gently for about twenty minutes, when, in 
most instances, he will be subdued. It is only in extreme cases necessary to 
repeat the operation of choking. The next lesson is to teach him to lie down 
which is described in the account of the fourth method of taming. No horse 
can effectually resist the terrible effects of being choked. 
It must be constantly borne in mind, that the operator must not be boisterous 
or violent, and that the greatest possible degree of kindness is absolutely es- 
sential, When the horse is prostrate, he should be soothed until his eyes show 
that he has become perfectly tranquil. ‘ 
2. Second Method.—The plan described in fig. 56 is very simple, though not 
as expeditious as the previous one. Buckle or draw a strap tight around the 
neck, lift a fore-leg, and fasten around it the opposite end of the strap, the 
shorter the better. In the engraving, for the sake of elearness, the strap is 
