“How do you do that?” asked George.
“I’ll show you,” Patrick answered.
He put some soft straw on the ground in front of the pony. Then the coachman tied a rope around Tinkle’s left foreleg. Standing off a little way, behind, and to one side of Tinkle, Patrick pulled gently on the rope, at the same time saying:
“Make a bow, Tinkle! Make a bow!”
Of course Tinkle did not know then what the words meant, but when he felt the pull on his leg from the rope it seemed as though his leg was being pulled from under him. And that is what Patrick was doing, only so gently that it did not hurt.
Then the coachman said again:
“Make a bow, Tinkle!”
The pony suddenly felt his leg slipping and as it bent he came down on one knee on the soft straw.
“Oh, he did make a bow!” cried George; and that is just what it looked like.