Interviewer: the different parts. Speaker: Well, all right, there's the bridle. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And there's the lines. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: This'd be the- the breast collar. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And the traces. This is the britchen. And the backen (?). Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And this other strap that goes up over his head comes down to his back, and that was the check.

Speaker: Yes, that's just it. That's a horse and single buggy. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah yeah, this is the (inc) here, and ah this is the breast-collar and the traces. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And that's the bridle. That's just the same as- as the breast-collar- what they call a breast-collar. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Just the hitching up here, and this little tail-strap. Interviewer: Yeah. Ah- Speaker: And that's the halter for the head ...

Speaker: It- well, in- in a buggy or a cutter there were shafts. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Horse went in between them. And then it, um- they went up and there was a loop on the harness. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Shafts went through those loops and there's traces from the harness back and- Interviewer: Did you have a buggy in- ? Speaker: Oh yes.

Interviewer: Yes. Uh, if you were driving one horse, on a buggy, what were those two wooden things on the front in which- Speaker: Those were the shaves, yeah. Interviewer: How did you fasten the horse to the- Speaker: Well, you backed them into the- into the- of course they have uh, traces and you have a- you have a place where you put them on the end of a- of a whippletree, a little whippletree. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And then for a team they had uh, what they called a pole- Interviewer: Oh, yes. Speaker: And then they had two whippletrees, one one each side ...

Interviewer: ... ah, what- where- where would the horse go in- relative to the shafts? Speaker: Between the two shafts. And then there was ah- what the hay was or-something, and there was little places for the shaft to go in on the harness. And then a whippletree, a single whippletree. And the traces were hitched to the whippletree. Interviewer: Mm-hm, which kept the animal attached to the- to the buggy or the cutter. Yes. Um, what was the name of the piece of harness that was on the horse's head? Speaker: Ah, bridle.

Interviewer: Yes. And what did the driver hold? Speaker: Their lines. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Ah do you know the names of- the name of any of the other pieces of the- of the harness? Speaker: Harness- there was a collar, and um- and ah, hames, the hames were attached to the- to the traces that hitched to the buggy. And then there was the back pad- but I don't know what that's called around. And then um- the tray- ah, no there was ah- another affair attached to the shafts, too.

Speaker: My dad and I were in the car bringing milk in. I thought I heard traces. Like a noise- Interviewer 1: (inc) around, yeah. Speaker: There was the two horses. They split (inc). Interviewer 2: Oh wow. Interviewer 3: (Laughs) Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 2: (inc) Interviewer 3: You don't remember of course. You were too young.

Interviewer 1: Kara, do you think anybody would know today what a 'whiffletree' is? Speaker: Oh yeah, a few people would. Interviewer 2: Can you describe that to me because I have no clue. Speaker: (Laughs) Interviewer 1: That's a polite way of saying, "Tell me what that is." Speaker: Well, that was a thing about that way. I'd guess when you attach the- the ah, the traces, the traces would be on the- the horse. And they'd attach that to this end and this end and that pulled. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. And someone would make that? Out of wood? Speaker: Well, I guess you'd likely buy it. But that would last for years, yeah.