. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. Spaxish Step •over his steed, together with his method and agility. Women rode on horseback in very ancient times, as we see by the sculptures of ancient Greece. One by Phidias, preserved in the British Museum in London, shows us a Thessalian woman sitting, man fashion, astride a horse of Thessaly, which breed was then held to be the finest of Grecian horses. This fashion of women riding astride continued in Europe until the twelfth century, when
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. Spaxish Step •over his steed, together with his method and agility. Women rode on horseback in very ancient times, as we see by the sculptures of ancient Greece. One by Phidias, preserved in the British Museum in London, shows us a Thessalian woman sitting, man fashion, astride a horse of Thessaly, which breed was then held to be the finest of Grecian horses. This fashion of women riding astride continued in Europe until the twelfth century, when ladies' saddles were introduced, enabling them to sit sideways. Sometimes a woman rode en a-oicpe, that is, behind her husband or another man. It is said that Queen Elizabeth of England " Inticuest " rode thus behind her grand equerry, the Earl of Leicester. The horse is easily trained to assist his rider in the of certain tricks of grace and skill. A tale is told of a Gascon horseman who r(xle a sj^irited horse hold- ing a piaster under each thigh, between each knee and the horse, and on each spur, without dropping a single one of them. I have myself seen an American cowboy cross at full gallop a field where a piece of money had been thrown upon the grass. Without slackening speed he leaned over and along the flank and bell)' of his horse, clinging to the animal with his legs, his head hanging low, but every. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed. Boston, Ginn & Company
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