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CHAPTER XI. 



Stable headstalls. — Prices of headstalls. — Lead-lines. — Logs. 

 — Fitting of lead-lines. — Prices of lead-lines. — Prices 

 quoted for articles. — Good and bad articles. — Pack-chains. 

 Spring-hooks. — New patent hooks — Kneecaps.— Use of 

 kneecaps. — Evils of kneecaps. — Proper description of 

 kneecaps. — Kneecaps too tightly fitted. — How to fit on 

 kneecaps. — Necessity for obtaining good articles. — Price 

 of kneecaps. — Watering bridles. — Watering snaffles. — 

 Dirty watering snaffles. — Eeins for watering snaffles. — 

 Care and condition of watering snaffles. — Accidents from 

 rotten reins. — Mode of fitting watering-bridle reins. — 

 Leading -reins. — Useful maxims. — Exercising without 

 saddles. — Price of watering bridles. 



Stable headstalls should be made of broad, strong 

 leather and double-stitched. Both throat-lash and 

 nose-band should fit loosely, and the former should 

 be round, so as to allow the play of the metal ring 

 which is attached to the leather billet which 

 connects them. This metal ring is for the purpose 

 of securing the lead-line to the headstall, the 

 spring-hook or buckle and strap (as the case may 

 be) of the former being fastened to it. 



Brass mountings look better than any other, and 



