The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 102
led, and the strain transferred to leverage from the legs, tothe detriment of the latter; the continual pull on the mouth cab-horses are driven mostly on the ring-snaffle, not ornamental,but powerful, a necessity in crowded streets, where sudden turnsand stoppages are frequently required. Harness… … WELL IN HAND. deadens it to the necessary injunctions of the rein ; and further,the head and neck, which a stumbling horse would use to preservehis gravity as a tottering skater swings his arms, are hinderedfrom their natural use. Yet ignorant grooms, to whom mostowners, from indolence or greater…
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