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Title: The horse and his rider
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1793-1875
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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on horseback overA precipice of 237 feet 44 Mode OF riding at Timber 51 Water Jumping — Scene at a Northamptonshire BROOK 54 Different ways of Swimming a Horse 62 Judicious KiDiNG ^^ Use AND Abuse OF Spurs 65 How TO TREAT A HuNTER IN THE FlELD 74 How TO BRING A Hunter Home .. .. 80 6 CONTENTS. Page How TO Dress FOR Hunting 89 How TO Eat AND Drink FOR Hunting 97 Difference between Leicestershire and Surrey Hunting 104 The Stable 106 On Shoeing 114 On EouGHiNG Horses 119 Saddles 121 Bridles 126 Intrinsic Value OP A Horse 130 On Shying 132 On Singeing 136 Meet of the Pytchley Hounds at Arthingworth to DRAW Waterloo Gorse 143 Effects created by the Sight of Hounds on Horses, Men, Women, Children, Sheep, Lambs 152 Cruelty OF Hunting Considered 159 The Lamb AND THE Fox 163 Beneficial Eesults, social and pecuniary, of Hunting 167 Sketch of the Life and Death of Thomas Assheton Smith 173 On Military Horse-power 195 On Hobbling AND Anchoring Cavalry Horses .. 206 On Chloroforming Horses 215
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MODE, IN NORTHERN PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA, OF RIDINGOVER THE ANDES, ON A RED INDIAN. QUERY, I/uc/MS THE SAVAGE? To far<= paje T. THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. The Hoese. In almost every region of tlie globe, not only on its sur-face, but at different deptlis beneath it, the history of thehorse is recorded. Fossil remains, says Colonel Hamilton Smith in the twelfthvolume of the Naturalists Library, of the horse have been foundin nearly every part of the world. His teeth lie in the Polar icealong with the bones of the Siberian mammoth; in the Himalayamountains with lost, and but recently obtained, genera; in thecaverns of Ireland ; and, in one instance, from Barbary, completelyfossilized. His bones, accompanied by those of the elephant,rhinoceros, tiger, and hy^na, rest by thousands in the caves inConstadt; in Sevion at Argenteuil with those of the mastodon ; inVal dArno and on the borders of the Ehine with colossal urus. But what is most deserving of attention is that while allthe other g

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