Hints to horse-keepers : a complete manual for horsemen; embracing chapters on mules and ponies . the ground, lest they should sink underthe weight of the body. We should be content with trying only a few leaps at atime, never attempting such as are too great for the ani-maFs powers. Horses are sometimes so much alarmed inthis way, as to refuse thereafter to perform leaps only halfthe height of those to which they have been previouslyaccustomed. The reader has now been presented with a detailed ao-count of the best manner of training horses for the saddle,and they will be found satisfactory in
Hints to horse-keepers : a complete manual for horsemen; embracing chapters on mules and ponies . the ground, lest they should sink underthe weight of the body. We should be content with trying only a few leaps at atime, never attempting such as are too great for the ani-maFs powers. Horses are sometimes so much alarmed inthis way, as to refuse thereafter to perform leaps only halfthe height of those to which they have been previouslyaccustomed. The reader has now been presented with a detailed ao-count of the best manner of training horses for the saddle,and they will be found satisfactory in proportion as heapplies them with spirit, adopting, of course, such altera-tions as will be suggested by circumstances. Of the prelim-inary exercises, not one is unnecessary or who would have a thoroughly good saddle-horse shouldbe contented to follow M. Bauchers directions, until he isable to prove that they are erroneous. It is recommended that each lesson be of a half hoursduration, that the horse have two lessons per day, andthat the training be continued for sixty Fig. 24. CHAPTER XVa UOW TO BIDE A HORSE. (HI 8ADDLB—THE GIIITHS—THB 8TIEEUP8—SADDLE-CLOTHS—THB CBOPPSR—TaB MAETDfGALE—THB BRmLE—SPURS—MOUNTINO AND DISMOUNTINO—THB SEAT—THE HANDS—THE LEGS—THE PACES—HINTS FOB SPECLIL OASSf—THE ARV or FALLING—REDING WITH LADIES. It would be useless, in this work, to enter into an argu-ment in favor of horse-back riding. It is so inspiriting,80 healthful, so enchanting,—such a truly noble exercise forboth men and women,—that it pleads its own cause, andit cannot fail to commend itself to all who will master it3difficulties sufficiently to fairly test its merits. Driving is very well for invalids, and for those who areindolent, or timid, while it is often convenient for all; buta free gallop or a prancing piaffiir, on a well-bred and well-trained horse, appeals so strongly to the life and spirit ofall vigorous persons, while i
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