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Updated: May 17, 2025
The hansom came nearer and nearer. It stopped in the outside courtyard. There was the noise of a curb-chain as if the horse were shaking its head. The doors of the hansom opened with a creak and banged back on their spring. A voice, a woman's voice, said "Good-night!" and another voice, a man's voice, answered, "Good-night and thank you, miss!" Then the cab wheels turned and went off.
Moreover, the instruction seemed contrived only for cheating and degrading the scholars. If one forgot to hook or loosen the curb-chain, or let his switch fall down, or even his hat, every delay, every misfortune, had to be atoned for by money; and one was laughed at into the bargain. This put me in the worst of humors, particularly as I found the place of exercise itself quite intolerable.
His mother had so often predicted from neglect of hers evils which never followed, that he had come to think counsel the one thing not to be heeded. 'Thank you, he said; 'I think we can manage it! and rode on. When he reached the ford, where of all places he ought to have left the pony's head free, he foolishly remembered the curb-chain, and getting off, took it up a couple of links.
"But yes by all means," she answered, with a lift of her head which suggested to Desmond a jerk on the curb-chain. In moving off together they passed close to Garth. But Quita, who was abstractedly opening and closing her fan, did not seem aware of his presence; and he stood looking after them nonplussed and inwardly blaspheming. He did not hold the key to this new phase of the situation.
Get out, man go away wait outside! Go! Here, Ayah! The dawn breaks as G. stumbles into the garden. Stay a bit. Have a drink or something. Don't run away. You're just getting amusing. Ha! Ha! Gaddy has aged ten years in the night. CAPT. M. So it is. Put it straight, will you? Poor Gaddy. CAPT. G. links and unlinks curb-chain aimlessly, and finally stands staring towards the veranda.
"On account of a curb-chain. Oh, my aunt!" "And whose memsahib was thy aunt?" said Adam, with the mango stone in his fist. We began to laugh again. "But here," said Strickland, pulling his face together, "is a very bad child who has caused his father to lose honour before all the policemen of the Punjab." "Oh, they know," said Adam. "It was only for the sake of show that they caught the people.
A little farther, and he caught the ring of a curb-chain. Then a horse whinnied and a hoarse voice swore low at a restive charger. His own mare neighed, throwing her head high, and some one challenged through the dead-black night. "How-ut! Hukkums thar!" A horseman appeared suddenly from nowhere, and examined them at close quarters instead of waiting for their answer.
The fact of the mouth-piece of the curb being in this position has the further advantage, that it prevents the curb-chain from working up on the sharp edges of the lower surface of the jaw. The edges of these branches are sharp, but that portion of the bone which is between their point of separation and the front teeth, is smooth and rounded.
In all cases a snaffle should be thick and smooth, so that it may not hurt the horse's mouth. The curb-chain should have broad and thick links, so that it may not hurt the lower jaw. A Pelham is a bit which can act either as a curb or a snaffle, according to the reins which are taken up.
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