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Title: Riding and driving
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Anderson, Edward L. (Edward Lowell), 1842-1916 Collier, Price, 1860-1913 Tailer, T. Suffern
Subjects: Horses Driving of horse-drawn vehicles Horsemanship
Publisher: New York London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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, I think they were called Cherokees, that weresimply perfection — pretty, nimble, and free fromall vices. Mounted upon them, a number of boysw^ould together scamper over the hills, avoidingthe monotony of the roads, to try conclusions inspeed, in jumping logs, low fences, and suchobstacles, and in other exploits that gave firmseats and confidence. Then, sometime in thelate 50s, Henri Franconi opened a riding-school
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How to Ride 8y and initiated us in the manege, and we began tobreak and train horses. Girls should occasionally be placed upon across-saddle until they reach the age of ten ortwelve years, so that they may learn the employ-ment of the aids; but there is no more ungrace-ful position that a grown woman can take than tomount a horse astride; she has a far firmer seatin the side-saddle, and when she is a good ridernever shows to greater advantage. Any man may learn to ride with safety andcomfort at any age as long as he has the neces-sary activity; and there are many men of forty, oreven of fifty, who would be able to ward off oldage for a long time, and have a pleasurable, whole-some exercise, by riding horses that do not requiretoo much skill in their management. For one to excel in horsemanship, certainphysical qualifications and a rare gift, aptitudefor the art, are required. I have often heardWilliam Fritz of Stuttgart say at an early lesson, That boy will never make a rider, or, les

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