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about the year 1760. The author's first knowledge of ohl Mr. 

 Tattersall in 1773. Character of old Tat. Langhorne's Repo- 

 sitory, Barbican, now the property of Mr. Dixon. The Horse 

 Bazaar, King Street, Portnian Square. The Repository Gray's 

 Inn Road, opened in 1828. Sale days at the various London 

 repositories, with their rules, and the proper method of attending 

 them. Conditions of sale at the new repository, Gray's Inn Road 

 — at the Horse Bazaar. Smithfield, the horse market, an epi- 

 tome of Hell. Where to purchase first rate slow draught horses 

 — foreign horses, p. 144 — 155. 



SECTION XXIV. p. 155. 



Warranty. Good hard swearing in the case. Anecdote of 

 Judge Mansfield and a Bow Street runner. Present rules of 

 warranty, aud manoeuvres. Blemishes. Judicial decisions, 

 p. 155—159. 



SECTION XXV. p. 159. 



Equitation, male and female. The horseman to ascertain, before 

 mounting, that the furniture be rightly placed. Negligence 

 even of regular grooms, in this respect. Better your horse be 

 cruppered than do worse. The old breastplate. Mounting, 

 bow performed. The perfect centaur. The sporting seat on 

 horseback. The straight-kneed jockey. Foot home in the 

 stirrup. Spurring. Dismounting. Mounting on the off side. 

 How a horse should be held for mounting. Altering the length 

 of the stirrup leathers. Bakewell's opinion in the case of a 

 horse stumbling. The start and progress. Jog trot the pace of 

 health. Seat in the various paces. Rising in the trot, and lift- 

 ing and working the horse in the gallop, purely English practices. 

 The trot and canter. Trotting aud cantering hacks, p. 159 — 166. 



SECTION XXVI. p. 167. 



The left the right side of the road, in English. Use and abuse of 

 the curb. Hard and sharp snaffles. The folly and cruelty of 

 torturing bits. To ensure a good mouth, young horses should 

 be first put to work with mild bits. The good snaffle-bridle 

 borse described. The two different intents of a pull. Danger- 

 ous ways, hills. The martingale a necessary evil. Little success 

 of the attempt to amend natural defects. When the reins may 

 be taken separate in each hand. Seat in case of plunging, kick- 

 ing, or rearing. Correction. The vicious horse. Warranty. 

 Use of spurs in a critical case. True use of the reins. The 

 seat. Starting and shying. Great severity ever to be reserved 

 for vice and roguery. The docile and kind nag — an example 

 from Sex's livery stables. Duty of masters to teach their ser- 

 vants mild and fair treatment of animals, p. 167 — 174. 



