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Show This Horse Cannot Jump. Sometimes an old horse becomes vicious in proportion as he outlives his usefulness, useful-ness, as old men or women do occasionally. occasion-ally. The aged quadruped develops a power of jumping that was never suspected sus-pected of him in his younger days. H6 may lie down in the road if you want him to draw a load, he may persistently stumble and throw j-ou over his head if you try to ride him, and seem so feeble that yon are so ashamed of yourself you feel as though you ought to be carrying him. But turn him out in the field and the decrepitude disappears as by magic, . especially if a neighbor has a fine fielJ of corn or oats across, the fence. Th6 animal i3 a living witness to the theory of the mind cure people that weakness ,and disease exist in the menial state 'alone. m , y The old rascal will Vault over that Keif on your neighbor's cats till ua is fit to burst. One old horse like this will ran a whole herd of colts and make tliem breachy like himself, and they never get over it. For the especial trimming in of such horses, young or old, as show themselves brenchy, the tether in the illustration has been designed. It is mery a rope OLD HOAX CAX'T JUMP NOW. aine or ten feet long. One end is tie., around the horse's neck, as shown. The other is drawn between his fore legs and looped around the surcingle iu the manner man-ner shown. Then it is brought around outside of one of his forelegs, and again taken back to his neck, where it is tied to the other end of the rope. Tbe science of it is that if a horse cannot raise his head he cannot jump, and the rope is tied just tight enough to prevent his raising rais-ing his heftd higher than the top of his shoulder; at the same time he can eat and drink freely. |