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evidently comes upon the loop, and this must be 

 fastened on strongly. This bar can be also put on 

 the rein when there is a loop at some distance in 

 front of the buckle, as in FjV. 111. In this case the 

 main loop must be very strong. 



What is known as Ward's terret, from the well- 

 known English coachman who introduced it, is 

 shown in Fig. 112. It is used on the lead horses 

 only, and has a bar across its centre with 

 an opening in it through which the rein 

 can be passed edgewise into its place. 

 The space in which the rein is shown, is 

 too small to permit the coupling buckle 

 Fig. 112. to b e pulled through it, but the billet 

 and buckle for the bit will pass through the larger 

 space. 



It may be noted that bar buckles, often used on 

 dress harness, but rarely on coach-harness, are dan- 

 gerous on the coupling-reins, since, should a leader 

 behave badly and run back, or turn round, the front 

 edge of the bar buckle may catch in the throat-latch 

 ring of the wheeler behind him, especially if the 

 coupling-rein is too long and the buckle, conse- 

 quently, far back. This happened once in my expe- 

 rience, fortunately without any serious result, since, 

 as we were leaving a house through an awkward 

 gateway, the men were still near the horses' heads, 

 and one of them instantly cleared the rein. 



A method of buckling together the wheel-reins 

 and lead-reins is used in Hungary : — 



