162 BITS AKD BITTING. 



Avhether for the saddle or draught, that these contriv- 

 ances are valuable, because they enable us to attain 

 our object gradually and noiselessly, as it v.ere, al- 

 though with perfect certainty ; above all, they afford 

 us the means of avoiding all unnecessary violence, or 

 any approach to ill treatment. 



