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BITS AND BITTING. 



Von Weyrother, formerly chief of the School of 

 Equitation at Vienna, invented a special instrument 

 for ascertaining all the necessary dimensions, and this 

 should be in the hands of all those who have any 

 number of horses to deal with ; we have named it, for 

 want of some better word, the "mouth-gauge " (Fig. 16, 

 A) This instrument is usually made of steel, and 



Fig. 1C. 



consists of a bar a b about six inches long will suffice 

 fitted on one side at right-angles with a fixed cheek- 

 piece c d, of the form shown by the figure, and having 

 on the other side a sliding cheek-piece e f, of the same 

 shape and dimensions (six inches long), fitted with a 

 screw for fixing it where required. This bar a b is 

 made oval in the transverse section, with the greater 

 axis about one inch, in order to displace the lips nearly 



