COSTUME. 



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frantic when ridden in a Melton bit and bridoon, and out 

 of all control with snaffle alone, in a big field, unless allowed 

 to go abreast of the leading hounds, a proceeding Captain 

 Anstruther Thomson did not quite approve of, would go 

 comfortably and collectedly in pretty Hght nose-band and 

 plain thick snaffle. Some violent horses go very temperately 

 in the Kerr model bit (see page 151), when used in connection 

 with a tightish nose-band. 



BOLTED ! 



CHAPTER IX. 



HINTS ON COSTUME. 



A GENTLEMAN ncced not, to ride well and to look well out- 

 side his horse, descend to the dress of a stableman. In 

 Rotten Row, when the ride is crowded, no man with any 



