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as follows. However, it is not necessary to get a new 

 one entire, unless j^ou think it preferable. You can 

 place the following attachment upon any of your 

 common driving, or riding bridles : Take a common 

 snafiie bit, one of Daniels' is preferable ; they are 

 made by hand, and of the best steel, and the only 

 reliable bit in use ; take your bit to a blacksmith 

 shop, and get welded around the part that goes in 

 the horse's mouth, two one inch and a half rings, 

 made of steel wire or nailrod, rounded down to about 

 one eighth and a sixteenth of an inch. These rings 

 hang loose around your bit ; the bridle is now placed 

 upon your horse's head with one of those rings 

 placed each side of his mouth and against the cheek 

 bars of the bit. Now procure two three quarter inch 

 straps, nine inches in length ; at each end turn down 

 a one inch lap ; they are now seven inches in length, 

 aside from laps. If your horse's head is small size, 

 six and a half inches will be of sufficient length. 

 One end of each of these straps is stitched fast to 

 each of these inch and a half rings ; the other ends 

 of said straps are brought up across the horse's nose 

 about six inches above the nostril, and stitched fast 

 to another one inch and half ring. You now procure 

 a strap two inches wide, and twelve feet long; eight 

 inches of one end of this strap is narrowed down to 

 one inch and a half wide, a lap of one inch turned 

 at the end ; this lap is passed through the one inch 

 and a half ring on the top of the nose. From the 

 point where it is narrowed at the end, I want it split 



