Identifier: firsthandbitso00ware (find matches)
Title: First hand bits of stable lore
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ware, Francis M Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horses Horses CHR 1903 PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor)
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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at I50 single, and $125 double, and road harnessesat I25 ; all good purchases, and as durable,practically, as any, but not quite so finelyfinished. ^39 chapter XI THE SADDLE-HORSE WHILE the comparatively recent in-terest in all outdoor exercises hasgiven renewed impetus to the glo-rious pastime of riding, and whilefashion originally conferred upon it the seal ofapproval because it was English, and thereforeproper, no nation has from necessity been moregenerally a user of saddle animals than Americans.From the early days of settlement, the pacer ofthe Providence Plantations and the more or lessthoroughly gaited horse of other sections werethe regular means of locomotion throughout allour great country, until gradual civilization andadequate road provision made possible trafficupon wheels. Just in proportion as the possibility of vehicu-lar transportation increased, the care for, and theattention to, the saddle beast decreased, until theadvent of railroads and decently kept highways 140
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I THE SADDLE-HORSE and pikes produced among our hustling citi-zens the rush, hurry, and drive which left neithertime nor inclination for the pursuit of equestri-anism as an enjoyment, and, as fast as settlementsbecame established, saddle-horses gave way towheels, double impetus being given to this move-ment from the very beginning, through the factthat our ingenious mechanics at once produced avehicle which for easy riding qualities, for strength,and for ease of draft has never been excelled evenunto this day — the old-fashioned, leather-hungchaise of our boyhoods days (and long before). In certain districts of the South and West themild climate, and the imperfect condition of theroads at certain seasons of the year, rendered the useof the saddle-horse a necessity, and all childrenmust ride perforce, as soon as able to get aboutalone. This bred a love for such exercise in thesesections, and as society drew into closer connec-tion, the class of horses bred, and their thorougheducatio

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