ILLUSTRATIONS. xv 



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205. Picking up an object off the ground .... 250 



206. Showing a horse the whip 254 



207. Maori method of riding a buck-jumper . . . 259 



208. Plan of preventing a horse throwing down his head . 261 



209. Plate to prevent horse getting his tongue over the bit. 271 



210. Side view of plate shown in Fig. 209 . . . 271 



211. Position of snaffle over plate shown in Fig. 209. . 272 



212. Taking off . ... . . . . 282 



213. Dollery on Cloister and Mawson on Horizon . . 283 



214. Leaning well back ... . . . . 284 



215. Clearing the water-jump at Sandown Park . . 285 



216. Hands down and reins a good length . . . 286 



217. Sitting too far back ; reins too short ; and hands too 



high . . 287 



218. View from Gartree Hill; the cover in the fore- 



ground, and Little Dalby Hall on the right in the 



distance ......... 301 



219. Wire ......... 305 



220. Garter straps . . . . . . . . 309 



221. View, from the road near Buckley Folly, of the 



country in the direction of Daventry . . . 313 



222. Hedge newly cut and laid ..... 317 



223. A second season cut-and-laid hedge .... 321 



224. Old cut-and-laid hedge . . . . . . 325 



225. A practicable bullfinch . ... ... . 327 



226. Topped hedge '. 329 



227. Hedge . ... . . . . . 331 



228. . ..... . . . . 335 



229- . 337 



230. Single oxer . . . . . . . . 34* 



231. Double ; . . ' . . ... . . 343 



232. Posts and rails . . . .... . 345 



233- 347 



234- ... . 35 1 

 235. Double posts and rails 353 



