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tach the other end of the neckyoke to the other horse in a like manner.
Lift the tongue and put the end in the center ring of the neckyoke.
Back the horses enough to prevent the tongue from falling. Pass to
the rear of the left horse, reach over and hitch the left tug of the right
horse to his singletree, hook the inside, then the outside tug to the
left horse, and then pass around in front of the team to the right side
and hook his right tug. Pick up the lines and get into the wagon.
You are ready for business).
In unhitching a team, unhitch your tugs first, hang them so as not
to be dragging on the ground. Take off your neckyoke, hang up your
lines, and then part your team.
(Unhitching, returning to the stall, and unharnessing the team is prac­
tically the reverse of what was done in harnessing, taking from the
stall, and hitching the team to the wagon. Get out of your wagon at
the left, lay down the lines, unhitch and hang three tugs, beginning at
the left. Pass around the front of the team to the right side and unhitch
the fourth tug. Pass to the front of the team, remove the neckyoke from
the right horse and then from the left one. Return to the left side and
pick up the lines and drive the team to the barn. With a pull and swing
place the right line to the right side of the off horse. Double and fold
and hang the near horse’s line on his outer hame, and then hang the off
horse’s line in the same manner on his outer hame, unfasten the lines
from the bits from right to left, and pass the horses to their stalls).
In unharnessing a team, I always take the bridle off first, then put
their halters on, or rope or whatever it may be; then unbuckle the dif­
ferent straps, take off the harness and collar and hang them up.
(Pass into the stall on the left side of the off horse, unbuckle the throat
latch, remove the bridle, put on the halter, and hang the bridle in its
proper place. Do likewise with the near horse. Unharness the off horse
first each time. Unsnap the sidestraps from the martingale, unbuckle
the bellvband and remove it from the loop of the martingale, unbuckle
the hamestrap and push the hames back of the collar, grasp the hames
with the left hand and the hipstraps with the right and draw the harness
off the rear of the horse. Hang the hames on the left hook and the hip-
straps on the right hook. Unbuckle and remove the collar and hang it
on the peg at the left of the hame-hook. Unharness the near ho.se in
the same manner and hang the harness on the same hooks with the other,
but hang the collar on the peg at the right of the hipstrap hook. . The
boy who has the proper routine in the care and handling of horses will
have no trouble with them. Boys who lack system and go at things
wrong-end-to will have all sorts of trouble. A boy has been known to
unhitch the three tugs, takedow n the neckyoke, unsnap the lines from
the bits, hang the lines on the hames, takeoff the bridles, making the