. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. Fig, 340. —Blind Billy. To Tell His Age. To teach a horse to tell his age, prick him lightly on the backpart of the leg until, to avoid the annoyance, the foot is lifted, orthere is an effort to paw ; for this, stop and caress him. Repeatuntil the least motion toward the leg will cause him to paw theground. In teaching this trick, the body is naturally bent a little whilein the act of pricking the leg, and by repeating, the position willsoon indicate to the horse that he must paw. This p
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. Fig, 340. —Blind Billy. To Tell His Age. To teach a horse to tell his age, prick him lightly on the backpart of the leg until, to avoid the annoyance, the foot is lifted, orthere is an effort to paw ; for this, stop and caress him. Repeatuntil the least motion toward the leg will cause him to paw theground. In teaching this trick, the body is naturally bent a little whilein the act of pricking the leg, and by repeating, the position willsoon indicate to the horse that he must paw. This position is to bemaintained until he paws four, five, or six times, or as many times ashe is years old, when the position is changed, and the pawing ceases. 278 TEA ClllXa THICKS. To Kick Vv. To teacli a horse to kick up, simply prick him on the rump witha pin until there is an inclination to kick up, when, as before, stopand caress him. Repeat until the least motion toward the rump will. Fig. 341.—Blind Billy Running alter and Catching his Trainer when PlayingBlind Mans Buff. induce him to kick up ; then touch with the whip, aiid repeat untilat the mere motion of it he will kick up. These tricks may be made quite interesting by talking to thehorse somewhat as follows : Tommy, I want you to tell how oldyou are ; will you do it} and signal for the horse to shake his head, as if refusing. Then exclaim, as ifsurprised, Oh, you cant tell yourage, I suppose, without being paidfor it ! Will you do it if I giveyou a lump of and signalfor him to nod his head. You cannow signal for him to tell his age,and when he has done so, it giveshim an air of sagacity which is veryamusing and interesting. Again,you may ask : What will you doto one who does not treat youwell? Then signal for him tokick. His prompt obedience, of course, indicates to the spectatorsthat he understands what is said to him, when in reality he is onlyobeying the signals which have been taught him. The n
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