The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . CHECKING AND Cruelty of Checking.— In sitting, walking, or standing,every person knows how tiresome it is to maintain one posi-tion very long, and that a frequent change of position is equiv-alent to resting. Itwould be comparativelyeasy to move the handup o
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . CHECKING AND Cruelty of Checking.— In sitting, walking, or standing,every person knows how tiresome it is to maintain one posi-tion very long, and that a frequent change of position is equiv-alent to resting. Itwould be comparativelyeasy to move the handup or down, which couldbe done almost indefi-nitely with out much in-convenience ; but tohold it in one positionFig. horse with over-check. perpendicularly or hor- izontally, would soon become extremely tire-some and difficult ; infact, so much so thatit would be impossi-ble to hold it out hor-izontally longer than afew minutes. A Frenchsubordinate officer, asa punishment, marchedhis soldiers all day with-
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