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dropped into place behind them, and the throat-latch loosely 

 fastened. The winkers should be adjusted by the upper 

 buckles of the cheek-pieces so that the centre of the winker 

 is in line with the horse's eye. The bit should be placed 

 as described on p. 484. Care must be taken to have all 

 the point-straps on both sides in corresponding holes. 



THE HAMES. 



The hames should be brought from the cleaning room 

 with the hame-strap unbuckled and placed on the collar with 

 the hame-chain or kidney-link on top. The hame-strap 

 should then be drawn firmly against the collar so that the 

 hames cannot be pulled away from the groove. The point 

 of the hame-strap in pair-horse harness should be on the 

 nigh side of the off horse and on the off side of the nigh 

 horse, i. e., so that the points of the straps will be toward the 

 pole. The traces should be thrown diagonally over the 

 horse's back and in pair-horse harness the outside trace 

 of each horse should be thrown over the inside one. 



THE REINS. 



The billets of the reins should now be run through the 

 pad and hame terrets and fastened to the bit. The buckle 

 of the hand-piece should be on the near rein, and the end of 

 this rein should be thrown over the horse's back to the off 

 side, where it is buckled to the other rein, and the two 

 doubled and run through the off pad-terret. In pair-horse 

 harness the billet of the coupling-rein should be fastened 

 to the under side of the nose-band with the buckle up and 

 the point of the billet fastened into the buckle, and not 

 passed through the keeper. The near rein with the buckle 



