. The care of horses : a book for all who have practical charge of horses. Horses. DRAUGHT WORK 57 fully. This little animal has good and well-fitting harness and a snaffle-bit. I once saw a boy in difficulties about his donkey, who, instead of pulling, insisted on running backwards. ' Does your donkey often jib, boy ?' I asked. ' Yes, he do at a biggish hill, and often he won't pull up a little one.' ' Let me have a look at him.' The poor boy, not knowing any. Photo by] \}V. Shai FIG. 30.—PROPERLY BALANCED. better, had harnessed him all wrong: the pad-girth was slack, the belly-band from the
. The care of horses : a book for all who have practical charge of horses. Horses. DRAUGHT WORK 57 fully. This little animal has good and well-fitting harness and a snaffle-bit. I once saw a boy in difficulties about his donkey, who, instead of pulling, insisted on running backwards. ' Does your donkey often jib, boy ?' I asked. ' Yes, he do at a biggish hill, and often he won't pull up a little one.' ' Let me have a look at him.' The poor boy, not knowing any. Photo by] \}V. Shai FIG. 30.—PROPERLY BALANCED. better, had harnessed him all wrong: the pad-girth was slack, the belly-band from the shafts as tight as could be, the crupper-strap at least 5 inches too short, and lying along the side of the back, instead of down the middle. Trussed up in this way, the poor little beast could not bend his back to his load, being fastened up hard and fast from the withers to the tail quite sideways. I soon rearranged Ned's furni- ture and vastly improved his drawing room, and like. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carter, Ada F; Carter, Charles, M. R. C. V. S. L. London : George Bell & Sons
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