. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. ON THE BOAD. 87 and the lines are held properly, it cannot occur. But in phaetons and other low-seated vehicles, it is not easy to hold the lines out of reach of a practiced tail-swinger. When it does occur, the best way is to reach forward, seize the tail and liberate the lines at once. Figure 51 shows a serviceable device for prevention. It consists of a double loop A of copper wire, fastened to the brace-strap at its junction with the back-strap. The reins are passed each through one of the
. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. ON THE BOAD. 87 and the lines are held properly, it cannot occur. But in phaetons and other low-seated vehicles, it is not easy to hold the lines out of reach of a practiced tail-swinger. When it does occur, the best way is to reach forward, seize the tail and liberate the lines at once. Figure 51 shows a serviceable device for prevention. It consists of a double loop A of copper wire, fastened to the brace-strap at its junction with the back-strap. The reins are passed each through one of the loops in the wire. Hanging out the tongue is a ridiculous habit, which comes from various causes. A very effective preventive is the use of the bit shown in figure 53. It is made of leather and in the back part of it are fastened two small screw-eyes a little more than two inches apart. A piece of stiff No. 10 wire, seven inches long, is bent to two right angles, and an eye turned in each end and inserted in the. Fig. 52.—^HOME-MADE LEATHER TONGTTE-BIT. screw-eyes as shown. This lies lightly on the tongue, yet prevents it from being thrust over the bit and hanging out of the mouth. Various patterns of tongue-bits are in the market, each having a plate or loop attached to the bit and resting on the tongue. But the home-made leather bit is as serviceable as any. Shying is in most cases caused by imperfect vision. Some horses are naturally " buck-eyed," as it is called, the lens of the eye being too convex, as in short-sighted persons. An English gentle- man who owned a horse of this kind had a pair of spectacles fitted to its eyes, which were worn with much satisfaction to both driver and horse, the latter never showing any further disposition to shy. Other horses have their vision impaired by standing in dark or foul stables, wearing badly-fltting bbnders, or by getting hay-seed and dirt in their eyes when feeding from high racks. A horse is more easily frightened by
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