This bit is what is called the persuader, and it is the best bit that ever was used for Bitting colts.
"Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets"
Daniel Young
A little shadow passes over my mind as I think of the analogy to Bitting a horse.
"Revisiting the Earth"
James Langdon Hill
Barclay had evidently been taking counsel with progressive soldiers before joining his new regiment, had been reading books of their choosing, and among others was a valuable treatise on the proper method of Bitting horses, and he found that here was a matter that Lawrence and Brayton had never thought of and that Brayton said was never taught them at the Point,-which was strictly true.
"A Trooper Galahad"
Charles King