ILLUSTRATIONS xv 



FIG. PAGE 



205. Picking up an object off the ground .... 250 



206. Showing a horse the whip . . . . . . 254 



207. Maori method of riding a buck-jumper . . . 259 



208. Plan of preventing a horse throwing down his head . 261 



209. Plate to prevent horse getting his tongue over the bit. 271 



210. Side view of plate shown in Fig. 209 . . . 271 



211. Position of snaffle over plate shown in Fig. 209. . 272 



212. Taking off ........ 282 



213. Dollery on Cloister and Mawson on Horizon . . 283 



214. Leaning well back ....... 284 



215. Clearing the water- jump at Sandown Park . . 285 



216. Hands down and reins a good length . . . 286 



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



high ......... 287 



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



ground, and Little Dalby Hall on the right in the 



distance ........ 301 



2119. Wire ......... 305 



220. Garter straps ........ 309 



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



country in the direction of Daventry . . . 313 



222. Hedge newly cut and laid 317 



223. A second season cut-and-laid hedge .... 321 



224. Old cut-and-laid hedge 325 



225. A practicable bullfinch . . . . . . 327 



226. Topped hedge ........ 329 



227. Hedge . . 331 



228. 335 



229. .... -337 



230. Single oxer ........ 341 



231. Double 343 



232. Posts and rails ....... 345 



2 33- 347 



234- 35 1 

 235. Double posts and rails ...... 353 



