CLUTCH 17
5.--DOWN CLUTCH, REIN IN EACH HAND 18
6.--SIDE CLUTCH 19
7.--SIDE CLUTCH, REIN IN EACH HAND 20
8.--CROSS 22
9.--REIN IN EACH HAND 23
10.--TURN TO THE RIGHT 25
11.--TURN TO THE LEFT 26
12.--HUNTING GALLOP 27
13.--ROUGH-RIDER 28
14.--FIXING HANDS 29

HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP.

CHAPTER I.

MILITARY RIDING NOT FIT FOR COMMON RIDING.

Throughout Europe there is only one style of riding _taught_; that is,
the soldier's _one-handed_ style.--_Two hands_ should be used to
the reins.--A soldier's horse must turn on the wrong rein.--Common
riders generally turn their horses on the wrong rein. Result of
this with colts or restive horses.--Indications are not _aids_.

When you wish to turn to the right pull the right rein stronger than the
left. This is common sense. The common error is precisely the reverse.
The common error is, when you wish to turn to the right to pass the hand
to the right. By this the right rein is slackened, and the left rein is
tightened, across the horse's neck, and the horse is required to turn to
the right when the left rein is pulled. It is to correct this common
error, this monstrous and perpetual source of bad riding and of bad
usage to good animals, that these pages are written.

[Sidenote: Only one style of riding _taught_.]

[Sidenote: That is, a _one-handed_ style.]

England is the only European country which admits of more than one style
of riding. But in all Europe, even in England, there is but one style of
riding _taught_, as a system; that style is the manege or military
style. The military style is, and must ever be essentially _a one-handed
style_, for the soldier must have his right hand at liberty for his
weapons. The recruit is indeed made to ride with a single snaffle in two
hands, but only as a preparatory step to the one-handed style. His left
hand then becomes _his bridle hand_, and that hand must hold the reins
in such a