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vent his performing that which produces safety to 

 the rider and himself, would bring him into danger, 

 instead of allowing him to get over it, and not im- 

 probably would also bring him on his nose : the 

 sudden motions of the head and exertions of the 

 body and limbs, that the hunter is compelled to use 

 to go safely, are so frequent and so sudden that the 

 best hands in the world, if they rode a horse on a 

 bit severe to his particular mouth, could not avoid 

 giving him checks that would not only produce 

 danger, but probably fatal results. 



The driver has no such call on his attention, nor 

 has the harness horse occasion for such diversified 

 exertion. With the difference of hill or level, his 

 work and action is uniform ; the driver is on a steady 

 seat, and it is only by having bad hands, that with 

 ever so severe a bit, he need injure his horse's mouth 

 by it. If a driver has such bad hands as many have 

 he is not to be trusted with a severe bit to use ; if he 

 has a bad temper, for humanity sake never let him 

 use one ; for the slightest offence of his horse, even 

 a false step, that the animal could not prevent making, 



