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double bridle, hold the snaffle rein in your left hand in 

 the manner already described, and loop the curb over your 

 little finger, in order that it may be readily taken up when 

 required. 



I may here say that, despite the directions which I 



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have taken pains to give on the subject of holding reins 

 I adhere to the belief that so long as they are held flat and 

 smooth, there need not really be any fixed rule about the 

 handling of them. If elbows, shoulders, and wrists are in 

 proper position, it matters comparatively little how fingers 

 may be held — and beginners are, as a rule, a great deal too 

 much worried and puzzled about a matter which generally 



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