- 'Whoa'
The word “whoa” should be used only to stop a horse when he is in motion. Never use it when you approach a horse standing quietly. Horses soon learn to distinguish any word often addressed to them, and they should learn to associate it with some definite and exact duty which you wish them to perform. If any word of command is used indiscriminately, or out of its proper place, the animal becomes confused and loses the association between the word and the object desired. To teach a horse the meaning of the word “whoa,” the arrangement shown in the accompanying illustration may be used. Put the large web, previously described, around his near fore foot, pass it under the girth; and as the animal walks along, pull up the foot, saying at the same instant, “Whoa.” He will be brought to a stop, and by repeating the lesson he will soon raise the foot and stop even though the web is not pulled upon - A Chinese Carriage
This machine, like a baker’s cart, is the kind of wheel carriage which is most common in the country, and such as even the high officers of state ride in, when performing land journies in bad weather, and the driver invariably sits on the shaft in the aukward manner here represented. They have no springs, nor any seat in the inside, the persons using them always sitting cross-legged on a cushion at the bottom. In these carts the gentlemen of Lord Macartney’s embassy who had not horses, were accommodated, over a stone pavement full of rutts and holes. When ladies use them, a bamboo screen is let down in front to prevent their being stared at by passengers, and on each side, the light is admitted through a square hole just large enough for a person’s head. - A horse
A horse - A Horse dancing to the Pipe and Tabor
A Horse dancing to the Pipe and Tabor - A mandarin's servant on horseback
The annexed is a portrait of a true Tartar horse, which seems to be pretty much of the same breed as those of the Cossacks. The Chinese horses are precisely of the same kind. In fact, no pains whatever appear to be taken either for improving the breed, or by attention to their food, cleanliness, or regular exercise, to increase the size, strength, or spirit of the animal. A currycomb, or any substitute for it, is unknown in China. Indeed horses are not much in use. Wherever the nature of the country admits of canals or navigable rivers, travelling and conveyance of every kind are principally performed on the water. - A new method of carrying dogs
Horse carrying a dog in its mouth - A Pack Horse
A Pack Horse - A Sally across the Drawbridge
The illuminators are never tired of representing battles and sieges; and the general impression which we gather from them is that a mediæval combat must have presented to the lookers-on a confused melée of rushing horses and armoured men in violent action, with a forest of weapons overhead—great swords, and falchions, and axes, and spears, with pennons fluttering aloft here and there in the breeze of the combat.[Pg 376] We almost fancy we can see the dust caused by the prancing horses, and hear the clash of weapons and the hoarse war-cries, and sometimes can almost hear the shriek which bursts from the maddened horse, or the groan of the man who is wounded and helpless under the trampling hoofs. - A Squire
Squires are unarmed, and mature men of rather heavy type, different from the gay and gallant youths whom we are apt to picture to ourselves as the squires of the days of chivalry attendant on noble knights adventurous. - A Tartar Dragoon
Of the Tartar horse another specimen has been given in this work. This represents a Tartar dragoon armed with the common instruments, the bow, and a short sabre. This corps is probably of little use beyond that of carrying dispatches, and assisting in the imperial hunts in the forests of Tartary. All the cavalry that were seen by the British Embassy had a mean, irregular, and most unsoldierlike appearance. - Akhnaton driving with his Wife and Daughter
Akhnaton driving with his Wife and Daughter - An Abbot travelling
We give here, from the St. Alban’s Book, a woodcut of an abbot on horseback, with a hat over his hood—“an abbot on an ambling pad;” he is giving his benediction in return to the salute of some passing traveller. - An Equestrian Epicure
An amusing scene often enacted in the ring is to have a horse 48seated on his haunches before a table, while the clown obsequiously serves him. A bell is attached to the table, so arranged that the horse can ring it by pulling at a bit of rag, and as the horse is almost continually ringing the bell, and the clown makes apparently frantic efforts to answer this summons each time, while bringing in plates, etc., a vast amount of laughter is usually created. - Anglo-Saxon soldiers
Another group from Cotton MS., Claudius, B. iv. - Archaic Horses and Chariots
Archaic Horses and Chariots (from an archaic Greek Vase) - Black Horse
Black Horse - Blacksmith shoeing horse
Blacksmith shoeing horse - Boating
Boating - Boy and girl feeding the horses
Boy and girl feeding the horses - Breaking horse for the 'Circle'
The common horses ridden by circus performers require some training before they are available in the “circle,” though it is slight compared with the instructions of the “trick” horses. The main thing is to break them to trot evenly and steadily around the ring. - Bringing the horse to his knees
Bringing the horse to his knees - Brown Horse
Brown Horse - Brown horse and foal
Brown horse and foal - Bucked off
Bucked off - Bucking Horse
Bucking Horse - Cabriolet of the Fourteenth Century
The illustration may represent to us the merry Sir Dinadan driving to the tournament of the Castle of Maidens - Child looking after horse
Child looking after horse - Clara Barton
The Girl Who Unfurled The First American Red Cross Flag. It was Big Brother David who taught the little sister many things that were to make her a very practical “Angel of the Battlefield.” At five years of age, thanks to his training, she rode wild horses like a young Mexican. This skill in managing any horse meant the saving of countless lives when she had to gallop all night in a trooper’s saddle to reach the wounded men. David taught her, also, to drive a nail straight, to tie a knot that would hold, and to think and act quickly. - Coaching
- Coursing
Coursing - Cowboy
Cowboy - Cowboy on a bucking bronco near Garden City, Kansas
Cowboy on a bucking bronco near Garden City, Kansas - Cowboys rounding up their herd
Cowboys rounding up their herd - Cross section of foot of a horse
Anatomy of the Foot.—This illustration represents the foot of a horse sawed from above the fetlock down through the center of the foot. It shows the structure of the foot, the name of each part being given according to number. 1. Lower end of large metacarpal, or cannon bone. 2. Bursa, which secretes the joint oil that lubricates the place where the tendon, or cord, on the front of the leg passes down over the front of the fetlock joint. This is important as it sometimes gets injured and becomes enlarged. It is then called a bursal enlargement, and is of the same nature as a wind gall. 3. Fetlock joint. 4. Os suffraginis, or large pastern bone. 5. Pastern joint. This joint is important; when diseased it is the seat of a high ringbone. 6. Os coronae or small pastern bone. 7. Coffin joint. This joint is important, for when it is diseased it is known as a low ringbone. 8. Wall of the hoof. 9. Os pedis, or coffin bone. 10. Sensitive wall, or quick of the foot. 11. Sensitive sole, or quick of the foot. 12. Frog of the foot, or horney frog. 13. Plantar cushion, or fatty frog. 14. Navicular bone. This is also important, for when diseased it is the seat of navicular, or coffin joint lameness. 15. Back tendons below the fetlock. 16. Sesamoid, or fetlock bones. 17. Skin. 18. Back tendons above the fetlock. - Death of General Johnston
Death of General Johnston - Deep muscles of the horse
Muscles of the Horse. Deep Layer. 1. Temporalis. 1. Stylo-maxillaris. 2. Rectus capitis anticus major. 3. Sterno-thyro-hyoideus. 4. Sterno-maxillaris. 5. The Trachea. 6. Scalenus. 7. Splenius. 8. Funicular part of ligamentum nuchæ. 9. Rhomboideus longus. 10.Cervical. 11.Cartilage of prolongation. 12.Rhomboideus brevis. 13.Transversalis costarum. 14.Longissimus dorsi. 15.Serratus Magnus. 16.External intercostals. 17.Internal intercostals. 18.Rectus abdominis. 19.Pectoralis magnus. 20.Postea-spinatus minor. 21.Flexor brachii. 22.Humeralis obliquus. 22´.Caput parvum (of triceps extensor brachii). 23.Extensor suffraginis. 24.Extensor metacarpi magnus divided. 25.Extensor metacarpi obliquus. 25´.Its tendon. 26, 28.Flexor pedis perforans and perforatus. 29.Obliquus abdominis internus. 30.Gluteus maximus. 31.Erector coccygis. 32.Curvator coccygis. 33.Depressor coccygis. 34.Rectus femoris. 35.Vastus externus. 36.Part covered by triceps abductor. 37.Biceps rotator tibialis. 38.Gastrocnemius externus. 39.Plantaris. 40.Flexor pedis perforans. 41.Peroneus. 42.Flexor metatarsi. 43.Extensor pedis (cut across). - Defending the Bridge
Defending the Bridge - Digestive and Urinary apparatus
Digestive Apparatus of the Horse 1. Mouth. 2. Pharynx. 3. Œsophagus. 4. Diaphragm. 5. Spleen. 6. Stomach (left sac). 7. Duodenum. 8. Liver (upper extremity). 9. Great colon. 10. Cæcum. 11. Small intestine. 12. Floating colon. 13. Rectum. 14. Anus. 15. Left kidney and ureter. 16. Bladder. 17. Urethra. a. Hard palate. b. Tongue. c. Soft palate. d. Trachea. e. Pulmonary artery (divided). f. Heart. g. Posterior aorta. - Dragoon in full dress uniform 1880
Dragoon in full dress uniform 1880 - Driving on the road
Car driving by horses on the road - Feeding time
Feeding time - Feeding Time
Feeding Time - Fight between a horse and dogs
The love for hunting wild animals, such as the wolf, bear, and boar (see chapter on Hunting), from an early date took the place of the animal combats as far as the court and the nobles were concerned. The people were therefore deprived of the spectacle of the combats which had had so much charm for them; and as they could not resort to the alternative of the chase, they treated themselves to a feeble imitation of the games of the circus in such amusements as setting dogs to worry old horses or donkeys, &c. - Frightened Horse
Frightened Horse - From the Great Seal of Alexander I, King of Scotland
Seal of Alexander I., King of Scotland : 1107-1124. The figure is armed in hauberk with continuous coif, apparently of chain-mail ; worn over a tunic or gambeson, seen at the wrist and skirt. Conical nasal helmet, lance with streamer, kite-shield, and goad-spur, are the other items of the equipment. The leg does not shew any armour, though the softening of the wax may have obliterated markings which originally indicated a defensive provision at this part. The ornaments of the portrait are usual at this period. - Galloping Horse
Galloping Horse - Going through the gate
Going through the gate - Great Seal of King Henry the First
Great Seal of King Henry I., circa 1100. From Cotton Charter, ii. 2 (in British Museum). The instrument is a confirmation of the gift of Newton by "Radulfus filius Godrici," and is witnessed by Queen Matilda and others. The material of the hauberk is represented by that honeycomb-work so often observed in seals of this period, and which appears to be one of the many modes in use to imitate the web of interlinked chain-mail. The leg does not shew any markings as of armour, but these may have disappeared from the softening of the wax, and the prominence of the seal at this part. The helmet is a plain conical cap of steel, without nasal : the spur a simple goad. The lance-flag terminating in three points, is ensigned with a Cross. The shield is of the kite-form, shewing the rivets by which the wood and leather portions of it were held together. The peytrel of the horse has the usual pendent ornaments of the time. - Great Seal of King Stephen
Great Seal of King Stephen. Drawn from an impression among the Select Seals in the British Museum, and from that appended to Harleian Charter, 43, C. 13. The helmet seems to have had a nasal, but the seals at this part are so imperfect that it cannot be clearly traced. Behind is seen a portion of the lace which fastened the coif or the casque. - Great Shield of William the Conqueror
Great Seal of King William the Conqueror : from the fine impression appended to a charter preserved at the Hotel Soubise in Paris. The charter is a grant to the Abbey of St. Denis of land at Teynton, in England. The king wears the hauberk of chain-mail over a tunic. The hemispherical helmet is surmounted by a small knob, and has laces to fasten it under the chin. The legs do not appear to have any armour : the spur has disappeared. A lance with streamer and a large kite-shield complete the warrior's equipment. The legend is + Hoc NORMANNORUM WILLELMUM ITOBCE PATRONUM sI(GNO). - Group of English Knights and French Men-at-Arms
It represents a sally of the garrison of Nantes on the English, who are besieging it. The man-at-arms who lies prostrate under the horse-hoofs is one of the garrison, who has been pierced by the spear whose truncheon lies on the ground beside him. The unarmed man on the left is one of the English party, in ordinary civil costume, apparently only a spectator of the attack. - He called to the coachman to stop
One day, when Handel was seven years old, his father announced his intention of paying a visit to the castle of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Handel was most anxious to be allowed to accompany his father, because he had heard that the Duke kept a great company of musicians to perform in his chapel. But the father refused his consent, and the boy turned away with a look of fixed determination in his eyes. 'I will go, even if I have to run every inch of the way!' Handel did not know then that forty miles lay between his home and the castle, but having formed his bold resolution he awaited the moment when his father set forth on his journey, and then, running behind the closed carriage, he did his best to keep pace with it. The roads were long and muddy, and although he panted on bravely for a long distance, the child's strength began at last to fail, and, fearing that he would be left behind, he called to the coachman to stop. At the sound of the boy's voice his father thrust his head out of the window, and was about to give vent to his anger at George's disobedience; but a glance at the poor little bedraggled figure in the road, with its pleading face, melted the surgeon's heart. They were at too great a distance from home to turn back, and so Handel was lifted into the carriage and carried to Weissenfels, where he arrived tired and footsore, but supremely happy at having won his point. - Heart and chief blod vessels
Blood-Vascular System of the Horse 1. Heart, right ventricle. 2. Heart, left ventricle. 3. Heart, left auricle. 4. Pulmonary artery. 5. Pulmonary veins. 6. Anterior aorta. 7. Carotid artery. 8. Glosso-facial artery. 9. Left brachial artery. 10. Dorsal artery. 11. Superior cervical artery. 12. Vertebral artery. 12′.Internal thoracic artery. 13. Humeral artery. 14. Radial artery. 14′.Cubital artery. 15. Great metacarpal artery. 16. Ungual branches. 17. Posterior aorta. 18. Coeliac axis. 19. Mesenteric arteries. 20. Renal artery (left). 21. Small testicular artery. 22. Posterior vena cava. 23. Portal vein. 23´.Hepatic circulation. 24. External iliac artery. 25. Internal iliac artery. 26. Lateral sacral artery. 27. Femoral artery. 28. Posterior tibial artery. 28′. Anterior tibial artery. 28″. Femoro-popliteal artery. 29. Metatarsal vessels. 30. Venous plexus of the foot. 31. Internal saphenic vein. 32. Cephalic vein. 33. Jugular vein. - Horse
Horse - Horse
Horse - Horse
Horse - Horse affection
Horse affection - Horse and buggy in a snowstorm
Horse and buggy in a snowstorm - Horse and cart with dog driver
Horse and cart with dog driver - Horse and chickens
Horse and chickens