326. QUESTIONS

To teach a horse to answer questions. This is done by pricking him
with a pin; for instance, you may say to the horse, is your name
Tom? and at that moment prick him with a pin so that he will squeal;
then ask him is your name Sam? don't prick him and he will not
squeal. Then say again is your name Tom, prick him again, and he
will squeal; so continue, and after a time he will squeal without
being pricked when you ask him the first question, &c.


327. TO NERVE A HORSE

How to nerve a horse that is lame. Make a small incision about half
way from the knee to the joint on the outside of the leg, and at the
back part of the shin bone; you will find a small white tendon or
cord; cut it off and close the external wound with a stick, and he
will walk off on the hardest pavement, and not lame a particle.


328. A HORSE'S AGE

The following rules will enable any man to ascertain with tolerable
certainty the age of any horse. Every horse has six teeth above and
six below; before he arrives at the age of three he sheds his two
middle teeth by the young teeth rising and shoving the old ones out
of their place. When he arrives at the age of three, he sheds one
more on each side of the middle teeth; when four years old he sheds
two corner and the last of his fore teeth; between four and five he
cuts his under tusks, and when five will cut his upper tusks, and