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SADDLERS' GUIDE. 



here introducing a Harness Maker's 

 Guide — or aid to the memory — in the 

 form of a list in detail of the different 

 parts of the various makes of harness, 

 showing at a glance the average lengths 

 and widths of strappings, as "cut out" 

 and when " made up," the Author 

 believes — and is advised — that he is 

 satisfying or supplying a long felt 

 requirement, not only to the trade in 

 particular, but by rendering reliable 

 assistance to the consumer and harness 

 purchaser. Thus, the private gentlemen will be enabled, 

 by referring to these pages and comparing the size of his 

 horse and make of the vehicle, to describe his requirements 

 correctly, either by post or otherwise, which alone will tend 

 to facilitate matters and give satisfaction to all parties con- 

 cerned. For instance, buyers are not all acquainted with 

 the technical terms, sizes, and proportions of harness, the 

 knowledge of which, with the aid of a tape-measure, or rule, 

 will be found invaluable, particularly in buying ready made 

 harness. 



The practical harness maker will find these pages both 

 useful and interesting, as a ready key and assistant, at times 

 of pressure or otherwise, in the production of leatherwork. 

 The new beginner in the trade, apprentice, and articled im- 

 prover will thus be enabled to grasp, as it were, a life's 

 difilculty, in a comparitively short period, after a careful 

 perusal of and occasional reference to these pages, by catching 

 the plot of the whole trade, and retaining the picture in his 

 mind's eye without effort, fear, or the usual feeling of over 

 responsibility. Not onl}^ will the apprentice, by digesting 

 this guide, be perfecting and improving himself, but he will 

 be enabled to show himself as a reliable source of profit to 

 his master, whose best interests he is at all times and under 

 all circumstances expected to have at heart, and thus it is 

 hoped he will be enabled to use from the start that unusual 



