168 HOW TO HOLD THE REINS. 



in swimming a horse, since, by catching across the neck, they 

 act like a bearing rein, and oblige the horse to carry his head 

 up and his nose in. In hunting this would bring his hind legs 

 on his fences, and oblige him to leap from the top of his banks 

 and to land all fours, instead of extending himself and letting 

 himself down gently. In swimming, it obliges him to keep his 

 whole head and neck out of water. I very nearly drowned a 

 horse in this way in the Serpentine " {Colonel Grcemvood). 



