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observed that all the horses, save in three or four instajices^ 

 tvore bearing reins j^ 



This notice is sufficient to endorse the writer's words 

 that the bearing rein is no more nor less than a legitimate 

 part of the set, and, that no harness room is complete without 

 it.f One bearing rein with plain covered furniture can be 

 used to any pattern single harness, so there is no real 

 necessity for an extra rein to every set. 



There may be some persons who, at a loss for fair 

 argument, would say, that the author is interested in the 

 manufacture and sale of the bearing rein. Such argument 

 is not worth entertainino-, considerins: the fact that the cost 

 of a bearing rein is so very nominal, and little or no differ- 

 ence is made to the customer or manufacturer whether a 

 rein is supplied or not, as far as the cost of the set or sets 

 go. And, in conclusion, he would remark that if the amateur 

 or prejudiced enemy of the bearing rein would hasten his 

 non-success as an horse-breaker, he has only to adopt 

 the extraordinary high-port of the "gag bit," which was 

 expressly invented to act as a secret substitute for the 

 bearing rein, and he will very soon find that he has 

 established himself as an accomplished " Temper and 

 Jaw breaker." 



It is an easy matter to discover whether a bearing 

 rein is necessary or not, and the sum and substance of the 

 writer's dictum is, if the horse carries itself perfectly 



* It is said that the horse does not know its own strength, hence our control 

 over it in the shafts. Therefore the writer considers the strength and presence of 

 mind of one man on the box behind a team of four high-bred, well-corned, noble 

 animals altogether inadequate, particularly in crowded thoroughfares, without the 

 assistance of the bearing rein. 



t A friend's simile in conversation respecting the use and abuse of the bearing 

 rein was, that with restive and over-fresh horses it held much the same position as 

 a drill-sergeant to the raw recruit. 



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