CHAPTER III.

EQUITATION AND DRIVING.

25. Standard required of men and horses 54 26. Horsemastership 55 27. Paces of the horse 58 28. Terms used in equitation 58

FITTING SADDLERY. 29. How to fit a saddle 59 30. Saddling 61 31. Bridling 63 32. Miscellaneous details 65

RIDING. 33. General instructions 66 34. Hints to instructors 68 35. Preliminary training 71 36. First lessons to the recruit 71 37. Mounting and dismounting 73 38. The seat 75 39. How to hold the reins 76 40. Position in the saddle at attention 79 41. First movements on horseback 80 42. Teaching the recruit how to ride his horse over a fence 81 43. The aids 83 44. Bending 86 45. Spurs 89 46. Various exercises 89 47. Paying compliments mounted without arms 92 48. Leading horses 92 49. Securing horses 92 50. Riding with the sword 95 51. Riding with the rifle 98 52. Revolver shooting 101

DRIVING. 53. General principles 102 54. Fitting harness 102 55. Position of a driver standing to his horses and mounted 104 56. Use of the whip 105 57. Driving without vehicles 106 58. Hooking in and unhooking 106 59. Traces 107 60. Moving off 108 61. Halting 108 62. Wheeling to the right 108 63. Wheeling to the left 109 64. Wheeling about 109 65. Unlimbering 110 66. Limbering up 110 67. Driving up steep hills 111 68. Jibbing 112 69. Driving down hill 113 70. Applying the brake 113 71. Reversing in narrow roads 113 72. Driving a pair of horses from the box 113

TRAINING THE YOUNG HORSE. 73. General principles 116 74. First stage 118 75. Second stage 120 76. Teaching a horse to stand still without being held 123 77. Teaching the young horse to jump 123 78. Third stage 124

RIDING AND RETRAINING AWKWARD HORSES. 79. General remarks 126 80. Pullers 127 81. Refusers 128 82. Horses that rush at their fences 130 83. Horses that decline to leave the ranks and “fretting” horses 130 84. Horses that decline to stand still when being mounted 131 85. General vice and bad temper 132 86. Refractory draught horses 132

CARE AND DISPOSAL OF SADDLERY AND HARNESS. 87. Care of saddlery and harness 133 88. Disposal of saddlery and harness in harness rooms or stables 134 89. Disposal of saddlery and harness in bivouac 135

CARE OF WAGONS. 90. General instructions 136

LOADING A WAGON OR CART. 91. General instructions 136

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY. 92. Position of driver 137 93. Fitting saddlery of ordnance mules 138 94. Training young mules 139 95. Leading mules 140