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"Snaffles, curbs and stirrup irons," he replied carelessly. And in the girl’s heart there leaped the swift, fierce flame of certainty in suspicion. "Why do you bring all that ironmongery down here?" she inquired, with frankly childish curiosity, leisurely wringing out her linen. "A mule got away from the corral.

My uncle blind, and afflicted with the bots, the ringbone and the spring-halt wanders about the commons, trying to persuade somebody to shoot him. And here I stand, old and sick, to cry out against the wrongs of horses the saddles that gall, the spurs that prick, the snaffles that pinch, the loads that kill.

But Providence, even though without curbs and assisted only by simple snaffles, did at last prevail, and I brought the sleigh horses, and lady alive back to Boston, whether with or without permanent injury I have never yet ascertained. At last the day of tribulation came, and the snow was picked up and carted out of Boston.

Then the Arab, leaving the horses standing there, went into the stable, and with the help of two of the inn servants, brought out bridles and saddles unlike any they had seen. They were but thickly-quilted pads stretching far back upon the horses' loins, with strong hide girths strapped with wool and chased stirrups fashioned like half hoofs. The bits also were only snaffles without curbs.

For instance, after prolonged experiments, conducted in privacy, he evolved a harnesslike arrangement of leather belts and straps, made all in one piece, and fitted with buckles and snaffles.

"Young ladies, I don't 'old with givin' the 'orses nothin' while in 'arness and a-mussin' them up. They'll be a-slobberin' themselves a sight," expostulated Dawson. "But Miss Stewart's and Miss Howland's horses are not slobbered up," argued Natalie. "They've not got curb bits. Just them snaffles which is as good as none whatever," was Dawson's scornful criticism.

Had he not been blown into the Snaffles' kitchen, he might, like Barker's cow, have been blown away. "You will probably find Doctor Schuchardt at Lieutenant Lanier's quarters," shouted Larrabee at the corporal, with kindly intent. "Take Number Five in there and get thawed out. Tell him I think a nip of whiskey advisable under the circumstances."

Description of a Bridle Varieties of Bits Snaffles Curbs Pelhams Nose-bands Reins Martingales Adjustment of the Bridle. As there is no difference between the bridles used by men and those employed by ladies, I have compiled this chapter from my husband's Riding and Hunting, to which I beg to refer my readers for any further information they may require.

Then he laughed, realizing that it was a long way to Central Park, flat saddles and snaffles. A little later he ate two of the sandwiches Wishful had thoughtfully provided, and drank from the canteen. Gradually the shadows of the buttes lengthened. The afternoon heat ebbed away in little, infrequent puffs of wind.

Here and there at random on the floor lie iron chains, spiked collars, saw-toothed snaffles, muzzles bristling with nails, and long iron rods set in wooden handles. In one corner stands a portable furnace, such as tinkers use to melt their spelter; charcoal and dry chips fill it, so that a spark would suffice to kindle this furnace in a minute.