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through the near and off-side territts and hame dees, and 

 attached to the bit. Several kinds and makes are in- 

 troduced by manufacturers, \nz\—flat reins with brown 

 hand-parts and black buckle ends; rotcnd reins, brown 

 leather all through ; fiat brown reins; flat lined Oxford 

 reins, stitched two or four rows according to the quality of 

 the harness, the latter looking very neat and wearing 

 remarkably well, all of which are adapted to any class of 

 harness ; and last, but not least, is the important item 

 which has caused so much controversy — 



The Bearing Rein. — Much has been said; volumes 

 have been written ; impossible pictures and numerous 

 dear-at-any-price pamphlets published, in wholesale 

 condemnation of the bearing rein, a specimen of which 

 literature the writer once heard condemned by a justly- 

 celebrated London steel goods manufacturer as " mere 

 twaddle," and who said the contents were calculated to gain 

 no other end or point than the one probably intended or 

 hoped for, — to bring the objector before the public, 

 and of giving him an opportunity of airing his barbarous 

 sentiments, (this being the word chiefly used by persons 

 of one idea only,) on that subject at least. The 

 author does not condemn the use of the bearing 

 rein altogether, neither does he advise or advocate the 

 regular or permanent application of it, but his motto, in 

 reference to that particular item of the set, has always 

 been — Discretion, and his standpoint — Humane. That 

 there are times and circumstances which demand to the 

 harness the application of the bearing rein for the general 

 safety of the "Turn Out" there can be no doubt or 

 legitimate question raised. The fact is well-known that 

 it should not be (and the author believes it is not) as a 

 rule attached for appearance sake only, as some arguers 

 would have it understood, or at the expense of punishing 



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