Cross country with horse and hound . ay look of the earth earthy, his breeches of the grassgrassy, but the dread and horror of being thrown are leftbehind. The learners tuition by means of a series of falls followsa more or less regular course. After the first few tumbleshe realises, with varying degrees of surprise or hardihood,that going to grass may be done in divers ways. When,for instance, having recovered from his first state of blank-ness, he goes again at his fences, he discovers that his horsehas picked up the fear his rider left behind, and, thinkinganother fall is due, refuses to ju
Cross country with horse and hound . ay look of the earth earthy, his breeches of the grassgrassy, but the dread and horror of being thrown are leftbehind. The learners tuition by means of a series of falls followsa more or less regular course. After the first few tumbleshe realises, with varying degrees of surprise or hardihood,that going to grass may be done in divers ways. When,for instance, having recovered from his first state of blank-ness, he goes again at his fences, he discovers that his horsehas picked up the fear his rider left behind, and, thinkinganother fall is due, refuses to jump. Thereupon out of thesaddle goes Novice once more; he was not expecting to fallon the take-off side of the fence. Good ! commentsthe experienced spectator, inwardly. Nothing better couldhave happened him. Again the horse is caught, and Novice mounts anothertime, with courage still rising. The horse, however, hasbeen losing confidence, and feels that his insecurely seatedrider is likely to give him another painful jab in the mouth. o fciO ou Fall; ^39 by getting the reins mixed or by holding on by the curbinstead of the snaffle ; but he is an old hand and does notlose his temper. For a few jumps everything goes beauti-fully. Novice feels as if his education were complete, andimagines himself startling a field of experienced horsemenwith wonder, if not with envy, by his superior horseman-ship— sure sign that another cropper is in pickle for grows careless. From riding with timidity, he beginsnow to keep company with recklessness. ** That s well,says the experienced friend. One extreme follows s a natural law. Novice is getting on next header will, in all probability, set him backwhere he belongs — about half-way between extreme tim-idity and extreme recklessness, at a place designated cau-tious-bold or bold-cautious on the cross-country ridersbarometer, which may be marked in some such way as this: (i) Timid extreme; (2) fearful; (3) cauti
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