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Every single day they had to be washed, then rubbed with saddle soap.

There were cans of saddle soap and a drippy can of tar with its paint brush sticking over the edge.

Leather can be preserved for years by the use of saddle soap and neat's-foot oil, but once it becomes hard and cracked nothing will make it serviceable.

"Horses," she said showing sharp teeth, "are nothing for a man with your bile—poy-boy—curry comber, smelling of saddle soap—lovely!"