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THE BRIDLE BITS. 



Figure 56 has a shifting motion across the mouth from 

 side to side, as one or the other rein is dj'awn, and, act- 

 ing like a gag, is very annoying to the horse. Figure 57, 

 the expansion snaffle, has only one action, as both reins 



Fig. 56. — SHIFTING bit. 



are drawn — that of opening in the centre of the bar ; and, 

 when one rein is drawn, its effect in the mouth is so tor- 

 menting as to make a horse mad enough to do anything. 

 Figure 58 is of a piece with others. Its power depends 

 on whicli ring the reins are buckled on. The lower down 

 the ring is that is used, the greater the power over the 



Fig. 57. 



-expansion snatfle. 



horse — for the whole bit being inflexible, the strain on the 

 lowest ring throws the arclied bar hard against the palate 

 and thus forces the mouth open. Figure 59 re}) resents 

 the best made aud liandsomest bit of its class we ever 



