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experience I find nine men and lads out of every 

 ten are very ignorant on the subject. 



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FIG. 12. — SADDLE TOO FAR BACK, GIRTHS APART, THROAT STRAP 

 FAR TOO TIGHT, AND CHEEK STRAPS TOO SHORT. NOTICE 

 HOW THE BIT DRAGS AT THE CORNERS OF THE MOUTH. 



CHAPTER III 



BITS 



Let us 'take a bit at a time,' as the monkey said 

 when he stole the cheese. Here, then, we have an 

 illustration of the bits generally used. I do not show 

 other and more ^severe bits because in my opinion, 

 if cruelty and its details were not so much published 

 and illustrated, there would not be so much of it. I 

 mean that there are plenty of men and lads with 



