The sportsman's dictionary : or, The gentleman's companion: for town and countryContaining full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ..With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ..And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents . ourfingers breadth over; and pieces of wood,as at G H E F, muft be placed at all thecorners, to keep the fides tight, and bindthe cloth in the middle; then cover thewhole with brafs or iron wire, of the thick-nefs of a common little pin; and to accom-modate your bird with food, you muft havea fmall drawe
The sportsman's dictionary : or, The gentleman's companion: for town and countryContaining full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ..With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ..And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents . ourfingers breadth over; and pieces of wood,as at G H E F, muft be placed at all thecorners, to keep the fides tight, and bindthe cloth in the middle; then cover thewhole with brafs or iron wire, of the thick-nefs of a common little pin; and to accom-modate your bird with food, you muft havea fmall drawer, or little trough, with aneating and drinking-place, at the fide C,between the cage and iron wire, at the littleletter a; and therefore that cloth fide ofthe cage adjoining to the feeding-place,muft be open with bars, fo diftanced fromeach other, that the partridge may eafily puther head between them in order to eat anddrink. CALADE, OR Basse ; is the defcent, orftoping declivity, of a rifing manage ground;being a fmall eminence, upon which we ridedown a horfe feveral times, putting him toa fliort gallop, with his tore-hams in theair, to inake him learn to ply and bend hishaunches, and form his llop upon the aidsof the calves of his legs, the ftay of the bridle. i;f;i ria&g J 11^. C A L bridle, and the cavefTon, feafonably given:for without thefe aids he would throw him-felf too much upon his flioulders, and notbend his haunches. Horfemen fay, Work your horfe in acalade, after the Italian way; ride himftraight, and then you make good ufe of thecalade. Thefe calades will difcourage your horfe,and perhaps ruin his hams; for you havepitched upon, too deep a declivity: andbefides, you do not make the aids of thebridle accord with thofe of the calves ofyour legs. CALF, (among Hunters) a male hart, ora hind of the firft year. CALKINS, a fort of horfe-fhoes for frof-ty weather, and are apt to make horfes treadaltogether upon the toes of their hind icct,and trip; they alfo occafion b
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