The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing . to horses, a certain precaution is the person who is about to mount, then, walkup to his horse, not directly in his face, lest he mayalarm him, nor behind him, lest he may strike athim, which he would thus give him an opportunityof doing. Let him rather approach him on the 226 HORSEMANSHIP. left side, over against his shoulder, inclining some-thing more to his head than to his flank. In thesummer time, when the flies are troublesome, this
The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing . to horses, a certain precaution is the person who is about to mount, then, walkup to his horse, not directly in his face, lest he mayalarm him, nor behind him, lest he may strike athim, which he would thus give him an opportunityof doing. Let him rather approach him on the 226 HORSEMANSHIP. left side, over against his shoulder, inclining some-thing more to his head than to his flank. In thesummer time, when the flies are troublesome, thiscaution is not ill bestowed, because the quietesthorses will sometimes strike out, sidewards, afterthe manner of cows, to rid themselves of their tor-mentors ; and many a man has been injured in theabdomen, or thigh, from this cause. Old writerson horsemanship recommend the horseman, whenabout to place himself in the saddle, after havingput the left foot firmly into the stirrup, to take thereins and the pummel of the saddle in his lefthand, and laying his right hand fast upon the hin-der pai-t of the saddle, thus to spring into his We should prefer his taking a lock of the mane,together with the reins, into the left hand ; be-cause, if he be a man of any considerable weight, hishaving recourse to the saddle for all the assistancehe may require, would be very likely to displace it, MOUNTING. especially as no horse in the hands of a good horse-man is now tightly girthed. When he is mounted, the proper adjustment ofhis reins is the next thing to be attended to. If asingle-rein bridle, he has nothing to do but to drawthe reins with his right hand through his left, tillhe finds he has got hold of his horses mouth equallyon both sides of it, when he shuts the left hand,letting the little finger separate the two reins. Thesame should be done with a double-rein bridle, onlyobserving, as they are drawn through the hand,that the horses mouth is to be consulted, as towhether that a
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