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attached, the real seat of bearing will prove not to have been changed 

 by the angularity of the fastenings, but will either remain confined to its 

 original situation, or it may act only on one fastening to the exclusion of 

 the other. That which is known as a scroll eye, however, is more 

 elegant than the plain attachment, and on account of its smartness 

 deserves to be preferred. 



A breast-collar, when the circumstances permit a free exercise of 

 selection, should never be adopted. It may, in the eye of inexperience, 

 look prettier; but it goes directly across a part of motion; it drags 

 against the muscles, which, being loose in structure, are not made to 

 endure continual pressure. Moreover, the cartilage of the chest moves 

 with each respiration ; any force operating from without, therefore, can- 

 not but oppose this normal action. 

 Besides, the chief component of the 

 chest, the terminations of the ribs, 

 which are inserted into the sternum, 

 are also cartilaginous. Now, carti- 

 lage is highly plastic, and readily as- 

 sumes strange shapes, as is seen by 

 the larynx when distorted by the 

 bearing-rein. (See " Illustrated Horse 

 Doctor," pp, 108, 109.) Whereas, 

 when the collar bears against the shoulder, it is supported by solid bone, 

 as firm and as compact as can be found in most structures throughout the 

 body. 



However, when accident or disease makes it impossible to continue 

 the employment of a collar, the breast-strap, although in itself an evil, 

 becomes the only substitute. 



A BREAST-COLLAB OR STRAP 



A MOTABUS Ain> A nZJBD BIHO rOB THX BIIRS TO PASS THBODGH, 



There is connected with the hame a simple arrangement, about which 

 neither gentlemen nor makers are always sufficiently particular. The 



