. Riding and driving. FIG. 56.—TROOPERS, FOURTH AND EIGHTH CAVALRY, FIG. 57. —CAPTAIN SHOPT^ RIDING INSTRUCTOR, FORT RILEY CHAPTER VIII HOW TO RIDE —THE SNAFFLE-BRIDLE—THE WALKAND THE TROT —SHYING —THE CUNNING OF THEHORSE — SULKING — REARING — DEFEATING THEHORSE Among my earliest recollections are those of aShetlander, Billy Button, upon which I used todisport myself on the gravel footwalk in front ofour house. My children, also, have been accus-tomed to horses from infancy. These youthfulexperiences are doubtless useful in teaching con-fidence and, what is of equal importance, discre-t
. Riding and driving. FIG. 56.—TROOPERS, FOURTH AND EIGHTH CAVALRY, FIG. 57. —CAPTAIN SHOPT^ RIDING INSTRUCTOR, FORT RILEY CHAPTER VIII HOW TO RIDE —THE SNAFFLE-BRIDLE—THE WALKAND THE TROT —SHYING —THE CUNNING OF THEHORSE — SULKING — REARING — DEFEATING THEHORSE Among my earliest recollections are those of aShetlander, Billy Button, upon which I used todisport myself on the gravel footwalk in front ofour house. My children, also, have been accus-tomed to horses from infancy. These youthfulexperiences are doubtless useful in teaching con-fidence and, what is of equal importance, discre-tion. If he is not in terror of all such animals,it is the inexperienced person who exhibits toomuch boldness and places himself unnecessarilyat the heels of a horse or overrates his powersof control. But a boy will never learn to rideupon a diminutive pony or upon any dull, slow-moving horse; from them he does not get theseat that quick motions quickly give, and hishand will be spoiled by the hard mouth or the no mouth of a sluggish beast. Eight or ten y
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