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course be more or less nullified. If the curb-chain is 

 unnecessarily long, the last links on both sides should be 

 first of all attached to their respective curb-chain hooks, 

 and then the slack portion should be taken up in equal 

 lengths on both hooks, so that the ring through which the 



Fig. 116. Correct position of Bit and Bridoon. 



chin-strap passes, may be equally distant from each of them 

 (in other -words, that it may lie in the middle line of the chin- 

 groove), and that the shape of the curb-chain may be the 

 same on both sides of that part of the jaw against which it 

 presses. As Colonel Alderson points out in his interesting 

 book, Pink and Scarlet, care should be taken in hooking up 



