. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. 4 The Rook of the Hokse. early morning chihilren, professional men, and government officials, at mid-day ladies, form the majority of the civilian cavalry. In a word, horses for one use or another, quite apart from fashion, form an important part of the life of every well-to-do English family, and are often considered essential as the means of
. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. 4 The Rook of the Hokse. early morning chihilren, professional men, and government officials, at mid-day ladies, form the majority of the civilian cavalry. In a word, horses for one use or another, quite apart from fashion, form an important part of the life of every well-to-do English family, and are often considered essential as the means of obtaining health and exercise, or superintending a rapidly-extending business by those who are by no means rich. The nouvcau riche wishes to have his stud and appointments perfect and complete ; to a man of narrow means it is an object to maintain his stable and coach-house at the least possible expense. Both need ample, plain, practical advice and information. It is for these—an annually increasing number of my countrymen and countrywomen, who wish to ride or to drive, or to be driven—that this work, long in preparation, has been written, with. A FRENCH MASIER OV THE HOKSE. (FROM COUNT DE LASTIC ST. JAL's WORK.) the assistance of very famous performers in the field and on the road—horsemen, coachmen, and breeders of the best class of horses—to whom every description of horse life is as " familiar in their mouths as household ; With this end in view I have endeavoured to begin at the beginning, to take nothing for granted, but teach the ABC of every subject within my programme. I shall have something—though not very much—to say to the fortunate ones who had the stable-door and the school-room door opened to them at tlie same moment; who have grown from infancy to boyhood, and from boyhood to manhood, with the choice of riding-horses of every degree of size and training, from the family pony to the thorough-bred hunter or park hack, with the services
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