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