SOME UJ^NECESSARY TORTURES. 



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horses will, if they must, go with them or any kind in a sort 

 of way ; but they don't make the mouth, and what sense 

 there is in making some of them, or what could make a 

 mouth to require tliem, would be developed only in the 

 horse's history. We give them, however, as samples (and 

 could multiply them by the score) to show what it is pos- 

 sible to get up, and the difference between what can and 



Fig. 54. 



-NEW STYLE OF MOUTHING BIT. 



what should be used in reason — from the regular mouth- 

 ing bit for the colt to the bit necessary for the spoiled 

 horse or one of riper years. 



Before firing our parting shot we will have a few words 

 with the reader, as we take our stirrup-cup, about the 

 samples of bits illustrated herewith. Figures 54 and 55 

 look very pretty. They are substitutes for the regular 



Fig. 55. — ^NEW STYLE OF MOUTHING BIT FOR A COLT. 



mouthing bit (fig. 1), and were invented and pushed into 

 the trade as "modern improvements." The men who 

 heard of but never saw a proper mouthing bit are apt to 

 use them. They tend to show to what extent people will 

 go to run or rum a good thing that may be useful and 



