The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . ch as if you were to raise a whip over soon as he is familiar with the harness and lines, take himout and put him by the side of a gentle horse. Always use abridle without blinkers when you are breaking a horse toharness. Lead him to and around alight gig or phaeton ; let him lookat it, touch it with his nose, and stand by it till he does not carefor it: then pull the shafts a little to the left, and
The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . ch as if you were to raise a whip over soon as he is familiar with the harness and lines, take himout and put him by the side of a gentle horse. Always use abridle without blinkers when you are breaking a horse toharness. Lead him to and around alight gig or phaeton ; let him lookat it, touch it with his nose, and stand by it till he does not carefor it: then pull the shafts a little to the left, and stand yourhorse in front of the off-wheel. Let some one stand on the rightside of the horse, and hold him by the bit, while you stand onthe left side, facing the sulky. This will keep him your left hand back, and let it rest on his hip, and lay hold of theshafts withyour right,bringingthem up verygently to theleft hand,which stillremains sta- BKEAKING THE HORSE TO HARNESS. tlOnary. DO not let anything but your arm touch his back, and as soon asyou have the shafts square over him, let the person on the op-posite side take hold of one of them, and lower them very gently. NEUROTOMY OR NERVING. 381 to the sbaft-bearers. Be very slow and deliberate about hitch-ing; the longer time you take the better, as a general you have the shafts placed, shake them slightly, so thathe will feel them against each side. As soon as he will beai*them without scaring, fasten your braces, etc., and start himalong very slowly. Let one man lead the horse, to keep himgentle, while the other gradually works back with the lines tillhe can get behind and drive him. After you have driven himin this way a short distance, you can get into the sulky, and allwill go right. It is very important to have your horse go gentlywhen you first hitch him. After you have walked him awhile,there is not half so much danger of his scaring. Men do verywrong to jump up behind a horse to drive him as so
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