CHAPTER YI. 



CARRIAGES, HARNESS, &c. 



Carriages — Their beauty — Lightness, strength, and weakness — 

 Axles — Collings' Patent — Patent Mail and Half-mail — Common 

 Springs — The Elliptic and Shackle — Their safety and strength 

 — Care of Carriages, and how to wash them — The best Grease 

 for Axles — Castor Oil— Crown Soap, its make and value- 

 Harness — Specialties in — " Kemble Jackson" Bridle — Kicking 

 Strap — Four-in-hand — Tandem— Care of Harness — Saddles and 

 Bridles — Bits — Their variety and how to clean them. 



Carriages. — Perhaps no nation or country in the world 

 displays such beautiful light wagons and carriages as are 

 seen in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and the Central 

 Park, New York, on every fine day. To a foreigner, their 

 light airy construction is in remarkable contrast to the 

 heavy equipages of Europe. These light and elegant turn- 

 outs are peculiar to the United States. The material of 

 which they are built in a very great measure insures their 

 safety and strength, although our faith in their safety is 

 often shaken by the accidents that occur, and which, it 

 must be confessed, had a little more substance and strength 



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