IV CONTENTS. 



CHAP. VII. Captain B .The Advertisement The Doctor's 

 Horse A Bog Spavin The Horse Returned An Honest 

 Dealer A Coper Frightened A Handsome Pair of Carriage 

 Horses Another Swindle Other Modes of Trickery The Salt 

 Trick The Welsh Farmer A Nerved Horse The Roarer- 

 The Mayor of Chester His Lordship's Bailiff A clever Take- 

 in The Biter Bit Change out of Seventy Pounds, page 115 



HORSE TALK. 



CHAP. I. Horse Breeding Hunters and their Riders, page 143 

 CHAP. II. The Scarcity of Good Horses ; its Causes and 



Proposed Remedy . . . . 151 



-CHAP. III. The Form and Action of Good Saddle Horses 161 

 CHAP. IV. The Zehra at the Zoological Gardens. Regent's 



Park 174 



CHAP. V. Savage Race-Horses 181 



CHAP. VI. Temperate Hunters ... 187 



CHAP. VII. How to Detect Imperfect Vision or Blindness 



in Horses ..... 193 



CHAP. VIII. Balls and Drenches 202 



CHAP. IX. Runaway Horses * 208 



CHAP. X. Our Cavalry Horses . . . 217 



CHAP. XI. The Character of the Horse . . 225 



CHAP. XII. Street Driving . 235 



CHAP. XIII. Treatment of Mares in Foal . . 240 



CHAP. XIV. Twenty things which a bad Groom or Coach- 

 man will do ..... 243 

 CHAP. XV. Our Horses and their Bridles . . 248 

 CHAP. XVI. Taking up from Grass and Conditioning 255 

 CHAP. XVII. Food of Horses ... 264 

 CHAP. XVIII. Mr. Rarey's System of Taming Horses 270 

 CHAP. XIX. Why are not Race-horses Bred with a combi- 

 nation of usefurQualities ? , . . 278 

 CHAP. XX. The Selection and Training of Shooting Cobs 282 

 CHAP. XXI. Horsemanship for Gentlemen % 285 

 CHAP. XXII. Early Working of Cart Colts. 294 



