BEIDLES. 225 



BRIDLES. 



I SAID in my last article on the importance o 

 hands as respects the comfort, and sometimes indeed 

 safety of a rider, that I would not specify the 

 different kinds of bridles that may be used on horses, 

 stating as my reason that horsemen know them all, 

 and their several uses, quite as well as myself; and 

 again, men unacquainted with such matters would 

 not know how to use a bridle, or rather bit, so as to 

 make it answer its intended purpose. On after 

 thought it strikes me there are men who are neither so 

 aufait of the subject as to render observation useless, 

 or so much the reverse that any hints given them 



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