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"When a bearing rein is tightened",
it pulls back your head...

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...so that you have to carry it
uncomfortably high.

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People think it makes a horse look fancy.
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But it made Ginger angry.
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This was a very grand place we’d come to.
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"Three or four times the size"
of Birtwick Park...

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...but not at all pleasant...
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...if a horse may have an opinion.
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"Ordinarily", "we would have"
put our heads down and forward...

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...but not now.
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Now we had to pull with our heads up.
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Pain shot through our backs and legs.
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For what?
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For fashion.
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Rein them tighter, York.
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As you wish, my lady.
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Reuben, shorten the bearing rein
on the mare.

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A bearing rein is well named.
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For it is unbearable.
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It makes no sense.
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And nonsense can drive a horse mad.
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Rein them tighter, York!
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As you wish, my lady.
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I didn’t know how much longer
Ginger could stand it.

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For pity’s sake.
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Are you never going to get their heads up?
Raise them at once!

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As you wish, my lady.
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Quickly!
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And then it happened.
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You incompetent fool!
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Whoa, there!
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Keep a hold of her!

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