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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 Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horsemanship Driving of horse-drawn vehicles CHR 1905 PRO Neifert, Mrs. (donor) PRO Anderson, Edward Lowell, 1842-1916 (autograph, 1905)
Publisher: New York London : The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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ant of vigor, the latterwould almost certainly have faults difhcult tocorrect. I advocate the use of the Shetland or othersmall pony as an amusing and valuable toy forvery young children; but when they are oldenough to receive instruction in riding, the ponyshould be devoted to harness, where he is reallyuseful and often ornamental, and something largershould be procured for the rider. A retired polo pony, or some quick but steadyanimal of that type, is an admirable successor tothe Shetland for a childs riding. When I was aboy we used to get ponies from the Indian coun-tr\, I think they were called Cherokees, that weresimply perfection — pretty, nimble, and free fromall vices. Mounted upon them, a number of boyswould together scamper over the hills, avoidingthe monotony of the roads, to tr) 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 S-j 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, le

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