CHAPTER V. 
THE THROAT—ITS ACCIDENTS AND ITS DISEASES. 
SORE THROAT. 
THERE is, among horse owners, much dispute as to the proper mode 
of harnessing a horse. Gentility has no feeling either for itself or with 
any of the many lives by which it is surrounded; this vice of modern 
time delights in labored imposture, and is always best pleased when it 
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WITH AND WITHOUT THE BEARING-REIN. 
is mistaken for something that it is not. Gentility favors the use of a 
bearing-rein in the horse’s harness. The object is to keep up the head, 
and to give to an animal with a ewe neck the aspect of one having a 
lofty crest. The artifice is very transparent; it should deceive nobody 
save him who is foolish enough to adopt it; but it deprives the poor 
horse of no little of its natural power. Gentlemen’s coachmen complain 
of the work when their horses are driven ten miles daily, although the 
distance may be repeatedly broken by visits and by shopping. The cabs 
of London can only employ the horses which gentlemen have discarded; 
with these last vehicles, however, no bearing-reins are adopted. The 
cast-off animal that previously fagged over ten miles, when reduced to 
the rank, has to pull loads which no genteel carriage would carry, and 
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