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or tired, or when you have occasion to use it, 

 or when you mean to work or attack your 

 horse on the left side. 



Section IV. — Of Separating the Reins. 



Separating the Reins, on several occa- 

 sions, is very necessary. Two hands can 

 execute more than one; and, consequently, 

 when a horse refuses obedience to one hand, 

 you take two. 



You seldom have occasion to take more 

 than one rein in the right hand, which, if a 

 single-reined bridle, you cannot mistake ; but 

 when it is a double-reined bridle, you take 

 the right rein only of the snaffle in the right 

 hand. 



For this purpose, turn the back of your 

 right hand upwards; put the first three fin- 

 gers over the bridoon rein, by which you 

 receive the rein between your little and third 



