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bit yet to be invented that can stop a horse running 

 away if it wants to. 



Before bringing this matter to a conclusion, I must 

 state most emphatically that I condemn cruel curb 

 bits ; and that no pain or annoyance should exist in 

 any horse's mouth, if you want him to perform his 

 duties well, and to be docile and gentle in saddle and 

 harness. 



I am, at the present time, driving a pair of runa- 

 ways, both in snaffles, and both in good heart and 

 fettle, and I can pull them up in their own length 

 when going at any speed ; yet I saw one of them, the 

 day I bought it, fairly mad, and the bloody froth 

 streaming from its mouth through an intensely cruel 

 bit being used. The same day I trained him to single 

 harness, and drove him perfectly quiet in an ordinary 

 double ring snaffle. 



I might just mention another case — and a bad one, 

 too — that I had when in Yorkshire. A lady owned a 

 very fine pair of carriage horses — incorrigible pullers — 

 both of whom had run away at different times. U?ider 

 my system of scJwoling^ I so improved their mouths, 

 that in a week I could drive them both at any pace, 

 and stop them in a moment, with slack reins and plain 

 snaffles only. Another case was a Brougham horse, 

 which had run away many times, and smashed the 

 vehicle behind it to pieces. His last performance be- 

 fore I got him was to go through a confectioner's shop 



