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practised liorsemen, and manufacturers of harness ; but they 

 are of the greatest importance to the general public, for 

 whom this work is in the main intended. 



Good plain solid leather harness invariably gives satisfac- 

 tion. All stitches of harness should of necessity be hand 

 work, the threads well waxed and twisted before using, and 

 the awl blade actually smaller than the threads, which 

 threads should be well and evenly pulled in, or, as the trade 

 saj'ing is, ''plump as a bird's eye." Firm sound work is then 

 assured, and this book would be wanting in its practical 

 sense, and would not have fulfiled the mission intended, 

 unless it gave this real germ of the subject in hand, viz., 

 such particulars, which may appear, from their simplicity^ 

 of minor importance ; and which must have been so con- 

 sidered, or overlooked, by other Authors; who, have omitted 

 them for the purpose of more minutely particularising mattera 

 not practical; and in which the average driver and horse- 

 owner is not concerned, or at all times safe in turning to 

 account, nan^el}^, phj^sic, prescriptions, and trick training ; 

 which latter is the extreme of horse-breaking, and not 

 suitable to the vocation of all horse-owners. 



The writer recently made a brown leather set of harness, 

 with square brass wire (west end) furniture, straight flapped 

 imperial pad, square winkers, light kicking strap and tugs, 

 flat-lined Oxford reins, London topped collar, and revolving 

 mouthed guard bit. This model set (as the customer called 

 it) was supplied without breast-plate, face-piece, curb, hip- 

 pieces, bearing rein, throat-band swivels, pad-cloth, or any 

 ornaments whatever ; the only extra in the set being, that 

 the bellyband was made to buckle both on the near and off 

 sides, for easy access and handiness in releasing the horse 

 from the shafts, in the event of accident. 



It is a cruel mistake to run a horse in a four-wheeler 

 without a hreechband, which should be so adjusted as to keep 

 the vehicle from forcing the shaft tugs from their proper 

 position in going down hill. The foregoing applies to double 

 harness and four-in-hand or tandem alike ; other minor par- 

 ticulars can be advised the maker on ordering the set. 



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For pipe-throated collars the hames are required to be 

 specially made in every case; the ordinary formed plain hames, 

 being difficult to adjust, are a misfit, and altogether unsafe. 



"Wq have introduced a set of harness which we think 

 fully endorses the name given it, viz., " The Humane," but 



