. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. IXSPECTION OF A RlDING-SCIIOOL HuRSE The method of driving horses has often been changed. At one time each horse of a pair had a bridle and rein to himself, so that one horse could be stopped without pulling on the other. To make them turn to the right a stra]D was fastened to the right of the jaw of the near horse, which crossed to the left shoulder of the off horse. They were turned to the left in the same way. To-day we use cross reins, that i
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. IXSPECTION OF A RlDING-SCIIOOL HuRSE The method of driving horses has often been changed. At one time each horse of a pair had a bridle and rein to himself, so that one horse could be stopped without pulling on the other. To make them turn to the right a stra]D was fastened to the right of the jaw of the near horse, which crossed to the left shoulder of the off horse. They were turned to the left in the same way. To-day we use cross reins, that is to say, the two reins in the hands of the dri\'er each divide into two at the shoulder, the c<n"res]5ond- ing end of each going to the left side of each horse's bit, while the same is done for the right side. This arrangement, far more convenient in the mat- ter of turning, presents certain inconveniences when dri\'ing two horses of different tem- peraments. In agricultural work done with cjuiet horses the driver often has but the two reins jroing from his hand to the exterior side of each horse's bit, and united by a transversal strap between the animals. The qualities required in a good driver are a gentle hand, skill, presence of mind, love for his horses (whom he ought to know thor- oughly), good sense, patience, courage, strength, and a cer- tain elegance ; he should be absolutely without roughness of any kind. Besides all this he should be sufficiently trained to his business, for no one is born a driver. It is a bad dri^•er, or rather not a driver at all, who does not know his horses through and through, — their charac- ter, humor, and temperament as well as their faults. He needs patience to conquer quietly the capricious humor or resistance of his animals without himself being excited by their fits of temper. Courage and strength will surely enable him to master their A Young CA^•.\ which, of course, it is absolutely essential that he s
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