. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . pull,which settled the cord its thickness into the flesh of hertail. In explanation, they said they were stirring up andpracticing the mare, to have a good subject for me; thatthey knew she was the premium halter-puller of that coun-try, and they proposed to fix her so that she wouldbeat me. She was ten years old, of medium size, brownish blackin color, of the most courageous, plucky character imagina- METHOD OF TREATMENT. 285 ble, and one of the worst possible halter-pullers in the coun-try. She would undoubtedly have defeated me had Inot, in t
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . pull,which settled the cord its thickness into the flesh of hertail. In explanation, they said they were stirring up andpracticing the mare, to have a good subject for me; thatthey knew she was the premium halter-puller of that coun-try, and they proposed to fix her so that she wouldbeat me. She was ten years old, of medium size, brownish blackin color, of the most courageous, plucky character imagina- METHOD OF TREATMENT. 285 ble, and one of the worst possible halter-pullers in the coun-try. She would undoubtedly have defeated me had Inot, in this way, become aware of her extremely bad char-acter, and prepared for the emergency. It was a precon-certed plan to spring the mare upon me, and defeat me,and thus make an excuse to get their money back. ThoughI had never seen so bad a halter-puller before, I determinedto put a bold front on the matter, and pass for all I wasworth. In forming a class, I told the people they were to dis-tinctly understand if I could not control the mare in two. Fig. 204.—The halter-puller trying to pull loose. minutes so that she could not be made to pull when hitchedby her own halter, I would give every man his moneyback ; with this understanding I made a large class. It now became important for them to defeat me, andfor me, if possible, to succeed. Fearing my whip wouldbreak, I secured an extra one, of the best quality I couldfind, stripped off my coat and vest, attended carefully toevery detail of hitching, and doubled the usual strength ofthe cord, to guard against the possibility of breaking. Themoment the mare was tied, she went back with all the furyof a maniac. But she had no more than done so when Isent the ksh of the whip across the tip of her nose, re- 286 HALTEE-PULLING. peating as rapidly and with as much force as I could. Thestruggle was a desperate one, and the excitement and anx-iety to see which would heat was intense. At the four-teenth or fifteenth blow, the whip broke; dr
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