ILLUSTRATIONS. xv 



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204. Preparing to pick up an object off the ground . . 256 



205. Picking up an object off the ground . . . . 257 



206. Showing a horse the whip . , % . . ,. ."-..'. 261 



207. Maori method of riding a buck-jumper . . . 266 



208. Plan of preventing a horse throwing down his head . 268 



209. Plate to prevent horse getting his tongue over the bit. 279 



210. Side view of plate shown in Fig. 209 . . . 279 



211. Position of snaffle over plate shown in Fig. 209. . 280 



212. Taking off . . ^ . . . .*' . 302 



213. Mawson on Horizon and Dollery on Cloister . . 303 



214. Leaning well back 304 



215. Clearing the water-jump at Sandown Park . . 305 



216. Hands down and reins a good length . . . 306 



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



high 307 



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



ground, and Little Dalby Hall on the right in the 



distance 321 



219. Wire 325 



220. Garter straps ........ 330 



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



country in the direction of Daventry . . . 335 



222. Hedge newly cut and laid 338 



223. A second season cut-and-laid hedge .... 342 



224. Old cut-and-laid hedge 346 



225. A practicable bullfinch 348 



226. Topped hedge 350 



227. Hedge . ' . . . . . . . 352 



228. . . '. 35 6 



229. . - 358 



230. Single oxer . . i * i< . 362 



231. Double . , . ...>. / 364 



232. Posts and rails . '**,.' ,". *#i 366 



233- . . 368 



2 34- ... ....".,.. 373 



