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BREECHING FOR WAGON HORSES. 
either of the wheelers, but simply unhook the traces and they can 
walk out. 
To hook-in is, of course, the converse, no buckling being required, 
but simply care being taken that the tugs are inserted in the stops. 
If the dimensions given above are kept roughly any horse, big or 
small, can be used, as by adjusting the breeching by means of the 
buckle the horse can be made to work at his proper distance from the 
splinter-bar, without there being any danger of the tugs getting in 
front of the stops and then working back over them. 
It will be seen that when the horses trot away without the carriage 
the two wheelers are both fastened together at the near-side tug, but 
this does not bring them too near together so as to cause kicking, and 
is rather an advantage than otherwise. 
Of course, with new breeching it would save leather if the breeching 
were buckled at the point B, instead of passing through the dee and 
then buckling on to itself; but the method I have described above is 
simply a means of adapting the present breeching. 
The stops on the shafts have not been found to interfere in any way 
with the driver. 
