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"Riding Recollections" is an attempt by the author to teach horse riding while hunting. It details the type of horse required for hunting and the different techniques needed in different climes. The book contains ten chapters along with useful illustrations: Kindness - Coercion - The Use of the Bridle - The Abuse of the Spur - Hand - Seat - Valour - Discretion - Irish Hunters - Thorough-Bred Horses - Riding to Fox-hounds - Riding at Stag- hounds - The Provinces - The Shires.
George John Whyte-Melville (1821 - 1878) was a Scottish writer and poet who was also much taken up with field sports. This book about riding and horsemanship has lots of useful information for the experienced and novice rider alike, and has a humorous quality to it.
This vintage book offers an authentic glimpse into nineteenth century hunting, with anecdotes, details of notable figure and events, comments on the its particulars, and much more. Insightful and entertaining, this is a volume that will appeal to those with an interest in the history of English hunting, and one that would make for a worthy addition to collections of hunting literature. Contents include: "Hunting", "Fox-Hunting", "Staghounds", "Harriers", "Draghounds", "Steeplechasing", "Early Days", "Celebrities of the Past Thirty Years", "Steeplechase Race", "Hurdle Racing", "Some Equine Erratics", "On Conditioning Hunters", and "In the Off Season". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. Originally published in 1896, this volume is now being republished in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fox hunting.
In this book I'm writing about memories and experiences in my life from back in the 40's to present day. It has been a great time to be alive and we had great places to live. We farmed and ran our auction business in Bruce County, Ontario for a few years after college but the lure of lower priced land enticed us to move to Prince Edward Island where we lived for 25 years. In later years we found that the markets for livestock seemed to be drying up on the Island as the potato industry grew. We decided to move back to Bruce County so it was coming home for us. We bought a farm between Port Elgin and Southampton and have been here 18 years now. This book is a collection of short stories to do with our lives in these areas as well as our travels in the United States. Like it mentions on the cover these stories have to do with my experiences as a horse, cattle and farm machinery dealer, as an auctioneer, car salesman, farmer, as well as quite a few other random stories.