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ciple of using both curb and bridoon at the same time 

 with the saddle-horse, and this by men of intelligence in 

 other respects. Most, and, indeed, all men are fools in 

 something, and the fools in this respect at the present 

 time can be counted by the score. It would be in-terest- 

 ing to know what ideas such riders and drivers have of 

 the separate uses of such bits, and the moral effects of 

 their operations on the horse, either separately or to- 

 gether. 



The man who used to play a half dozen different kinds 

 of musical instruments together at the same time is dead, 

 but the men who use three or four different kinds of 

 steering gear on a horse at the same time are not, and 

 many such riders have broken their own or their horses' 

 necks since Brown broke his on the Beacon course some 

 forty years ago, when the horse, mistaking the action of 

 the bit for what it didn't mean, stopped short at the first 

 hurdle, and threw Brown headlong over his head and 

 hi\rdle, too, and broke his neck. We have plenty of 

 Browns. The bad manao-ement of the bits is a most 

 fruitful source of this kind of accident to novices in the 

 art of riding who would be horsemen. 



