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Updated: June 4, 2025
Hargreaves, Arkwright, Watt and Eli Whitney had worked a revolution more far-reaching than did Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre and Marat. Here creeps in an item interesting to our friends who revel in syntax and prosody. Any machine or apparatus for lifting has been called a "jack" since the days of Shakespeare. The jack was the bearer of bundles, a lifter, a puller, a worker.
Concerning the best kind of bridle in which to hold a puller, I cannot do better than quote the following remarks from my husband's book, Riding and Hunting: "As regards the bitting of a puller, I would advise that with a double bridle the curb should be put low down in the mouth.... In all cases an unjointed snaffle is much the best form of bit.
If the brute will not obey, we must use severe measures, and in extreme cases, it is well to "saw" the bit from one side to the other, in order to hurt his mouth so much, that from very pain he must perforce yield. I believe that many bad accidents have occurred through riders becoming frightened and refraining from the use of force in stopping a hard puller, who is thus allowed to run away.
"You heard me," responded the expressman, handing Mr. Carter a hammer and nail puller. The conductor kneeled down and proceeded to open the box. The fat man would have torn his hair only he was bald and there was none he could spare. "Get away from that box! get away!" he commanded, fairly dancing about the car. "Do you know what I'll do? I'll sue the company." "All right.
The rye was turned under green in the spring to furnish humus, the greatest and only vital need of this particular spot of virgin soil. Since that was written an excellent and cheap stump puller has been introduced, but the account of work is still typical.
It is, of course, well to accustom a horse to its use before riding him in it over a country. It at least doubles one's power over a puller, and is invaluable for controlling and guiding a "green" animal. It is a common idea that the chief use of a running martingale is to prevent a horse raising his head too high.
If not, she should saw his mouth with the bit by working it from side to side. The groom, or attendant, should on no account gallop after her, as doing so will only tend to make the lady's horse go all the faster. I remember riding a very hard puller belonging to Mr. Wintle, of Shanghai. One day this animal bolted with me, and the stupid native mafoo behind galloped on after me.
Beyond this, I have "interviewed" politicians of every school and temper from Fernando Wood, the chief "wire puller" of swindling Tammany Hall, up to doughty, tongue-tied General Grant, the "useless slaughtering" commander of the northern forces during the civil war having had the pleasure of learning from the former how "logs" are "rolled" in the furtherance of party ends; and, from the latter, although the information only came out in dribbled monosyllables in answer to gently disguised questions, for the reticent warrior can hardly put two words of a sentence together, that he had been "bred up a farmer," and, considered himself "more fit" for "that state of life" than any other in which opinion, as he has never been publicly tried in the calling, I cordially agree with him.
Mose was angry on the instant and sullenly said: "None of your business." After threatening to blow his liver into bits they rode on and repeated their question to Pratt, who significantly replied: "I'm a-goin' to the mouth o' the Cannon Ball ef I don't miss it. Any objection?" "You bet we have, you rowdy baggage puller. You better keep out o' here; the climate's purty severe."
It requires a good deal of physical strength to control a hard puller, and I have had my gloves and hands badly cut in wrestling with particularly headstrong brutes. On the other hand, some horses which have really nice mouths, get the name of being pullers, on account of having been ridden by "mutton-fisted" men who hang on to the reins and thus irritate them beyond control.
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