HORSEMANSHIP. 



the off. Practice on a quiet fourteen two or fifteen hands 

 horse in the first instance, then, by degrees, try your hand on 

 something bigger till you can deftly and neatly throw your 

 leg over a sixteen-hander, beyond which height no horse, 



MOUNTING WITHOUT STIRRUPS — FIRST POSITION, 



except a mammoth dray or waggoner, should be. Cross the 

 stirrups over the horse's neck, or, for practice, slide them out 

 of the bars and remove them ; stand immediately opposite 

 and close to the saddle ; take up the reins with the right 

 hand, pass the little finger of the left between them, and 



