The only way they feel comfortable is when harnessed with the face toward the whiffletree and their back to the end of the shafts.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
The horses were driven down behind it, and from one of them de Spain took the collar, the tugs, and the whiffletree.
"Nan of Music Mountain"
Frank H. Spearman
Duke Morgan tested the cinches of the saddle on the Lady once more, unloosed the tugs once more from the horse's shoulder, examined each buckle of the collar and every inch of the two strips of leather, the reinforced fastenings on the whiffletree, rolled all up again, strapped it, and stood by the head till de Spain swung up into the saddle.
"Nan of Music Mountain"
Frank H. Spearman