Miller, Claude Harris, 1875- [from old catalog] · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 252
over his back. There are a great manyhitches used for this purpose by Western mountain-eers, but the celebrated diamond hitch will answermost purposes. Hunting and steeplechasing, leaping fences andditches, are the highest art of horsemanship. Itis difiicult to teach an old horse to be a hunter,… … Jumping fences is the highest art of horsemanship present generation partially to lose interest in horse-flesh, but no automobile ever made will furnishthe real bond of friendship which exists be-tween a boy and his horse, or will be a substitute 232 OUTDOOR SPORTS for the pleasure that comes from…
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