CH. XIX CHANGES 46 1 



The wheel horses are then led to their places 

 from the side or from behind. It is a bad plan 

 to bring them to the pole, head on, and then 

 turn them into their places. The pole-chains are 

 hooked at their full length into the kidney-link 

 ring ; the traces put on the roller-bolts, the out- 

 side one first ; and the pole-chain passed through 

 the ring from the inside, outward, pulled down, 

 hooked into the proper link, and its india-rubber 

 ring pushed over the hook. The coupling-reins 

 are then buckled. 



The leaders are then led to their places, with the 

 coupling-reins already crossed and buckled ; the 

 lead-reins are run through the wheelers' terrets, care 

 being taken that the wheel-rein is first taken off the 

 pad-terret, or it will be bound down by the lead-rein. 

 Then the leaders' traces are hooked to the bars. 

 The reason for running the reins before hooking 

 the traces, is, that if the leaders start thev can do 

 no harm, not being attached to the coach, and they 

 can be stopped by the reins, whereas if they are 

 hooked to the bars before the reins are run, they 

 might bolt and cause a serious accident. If the 

 lead-reins have been properly put into the lead-har- 

 ness terrets, they can be pulled through the throat- 

 latch ring and the centre- terret by taking hold of 

 the end, the whole rein running through freely. 

 When the near side reins are ready, they are 

 thrown over the wheeler's back to the off side, 

 where the coachman is ready to receive them. This 



