item: #1 of 37 id: 10539 author: Browne, Theo. Stephenson title: In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda date: None words: 39455 flesch: 74 summary: They are good horses, but I don't believe that they practice circus tricks. If you cannot do it in the school, you cannot on the road, and many an ugly scrape against walls, horse-cars, and other horses you will receive unless you can keep to the right and in a straight line. keywords: able; accustomed; american; answer; arms; attention; backward; bad; beautiful; beauty; best; better; billy; body; buttons; canter; care; cause; cavalryman; centre; certain; change; circle; class; close; cloth; color; comfortable; common; corners; correct; cost; course; creature; cries; curb; danger; day; dear; dollars; draw; dress; dressing; drop; easy; elbows; end; english; equestrian; esmeralda; exercise; eyes; face; fairy; fancy; feeling; feet; finger; foot; forward; french; girl; good; good horse; great; guide; habit; half; hand; hat; head; heel; high; hold; home; horse; horseback; hour; hunting; instruction; keeping; kind; knee; know; knowledge; ladies; lady; lawyer; lean; leap; left; leg; legs; lessons; likely; line; little; long; making; manner; master; military; mind; minute; miss; moment; morning; mother; mount; mouth; movement; mrs; muscles; music; necessary; neck; need; nell; new; order; ordinary; outside; perfect; person; place; pleasure; point; pommel; poor; position; possible; practice; pretty; private; proper; pull; pupil; queen; quiet; ready; reason; reins; rest; ride; riders; riding; right; right hand; ring; rise; road; ronald; room; round; rule; run; saddle; school; seat; second; self; short; shoulder; sides; sir; skirt; small; snaffle; society; square; stable; stand; start; step; stirrup; stop; straight; straps; teacher; teaching; theodore; things; thought; time; tired; touch; track; trot; trotting; true; turn; upward; use; versatilia; voice; waist; walk; walking; wall; watch; way; ways; whip; white; wise; woman; work; wrong; years; young cache: 10539.txt plain text: 10539.txt item: #2 of 37 id: 1176 author: Xenophon title: On Horsemanship date: None words: 13989 flesch: 80 summary: How can a troop of horses be kept free of one another, if driven in this fashion from behind?--whereas a horse accustomed to be led from the side will have least power of mischief to horse or man, and at the same time be in the best position to be mounted by the rider at a moment's notice, were it necessary. Another point to ascertain is whether the horse, when mounted, can be induced to leave other horses, or when being ridden past a group of horses standing, will not bolt off to join the company. keywords: able; action; animal; arm; belly; best; better; bit; body; broad; case; cavalry; close; colt; corselet; courier; course; creature; dind; effect; face; fact; feet; food; foot; forward; gallop; general; good; groom; ground; hand; hard; head; help; high; hold; home; hoof; horse; horsemanship; human; iii; instant; kai; large; leap; left; legs; like; little; long; man; mane; matter; moment; morgan; mouth; neck; need; parts; place; point; position; possible; purchaser; reading; reason; rein; rest; result; rider; right; schneid; seat; set; shoulder; smooth; sort; sound; spear; spirit; spirited; stable; supple; supposing; tail; thick; thighs; time; ton; training; turn; type; view; viii; war; way; wish; work; xenophon; young cache: 1176.txt plain text: 1176.txt item: #3 of 37 id: 11979 author: Cowper, William title: The Diverting History of John Gilpin Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again date: None words: 1925 flesch: 88 summary: Proofreading Team The Diverting History of John Gilpin One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books 1878 [Illustration: The Diverting History of John Gilpin] keywords: 4to; books; caldecott; calender; chaise; coloured; come; crown; dear; gilpin; hat; history; horse; illustration; john; long; numerous; picture; road; wig cache: 11979.txt plain text: 11979.txt item: #4 of 37 id: 12980 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers; Or, On the Trail of the Border Bandits date: None words: 50760 flesch: 93 summary: whispered Tad. Bang, bang, bang! Tad Butler fired three shots from his revolver, then threw himself on the ground. yelled Tad, as the circling horsemen swung out into a straight line and began racing across the plains, turning in their saddles to shoot at their assailants. keywords: able; afraid; air; answer; bad; bag; bandits; bang; better; billy; body; border; boys; breakfast; brown; bugs; bullet; bushes; business; butler; cad; camp; canyon; captain; cave; chance; chapter; chunky; clear; close; cold; come; companions; course; crowd; danger; day; deep; dippy; direction; discovery; distance; dunk; end; eyes; face; fact; fat; fat boy; feet; fellow; find; fire; glance; good; great; ground; half; hand; hard; hat; head; help; hit; hold; hole; hope; horse; hour; howled; idea; instant; jeered; jones; lad; lads; later; laugh; leave; left; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; long; look; man; mark; matter; mckay; meal; mean; men; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morgan; morning; mountaineer; mountains; muttered; near; ned; need; opening; outfit; party; perkins; piece; place; plain; point; polly; ponies; pony; position; possum; prisoner; professor; professor zepplin; question; quick; rangers; ready; rector; rest; revolver; rider; rider boys; rifle; right; rocks; roots; run; saddle; safe; second; shooting; shot; sir; sleep; sort; sound; stacy; state; stone; story; stranger; stream; sure; tad; tad butler; taking; tell; tent; texas; thing; thought; time; trail; tree; trouble; tucker; turn; visitor; voice; walter; watch; way; willie; withem; word; work; young; zepplin cache: 12980.txt plain text: 12980.txt item: #5 of 37 id: 12997 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch date: None words: 49778 flesch: 92 summary: The old man's heart warmed toward Tad Butler in that moment, when Tad, all alone, sought a closer acquaintance with the mystery of the great gash. yelled Tad. Look out! keywords: able; afraid; afternoon; air; and-----; angel; animal; attention; away; base; beast; bed; better; big; blankets; boys; breakfast; breath; brown; buck; business; butler; camp; canyon; case; cat; chance; chapter; chief; chunky; climb; clothes; colorado; companions; country; course; crater; cut; dad; danger; day; dead; death; deep; deer; direction; distance; dogs; edge; end; experience; eyes; face; fact; fall; far; fat; fat boy; feet; fellow; felt; fine; finished; fire; following; food; foot; forward; free; game; ghost; glad; good; grand; great; ground; guide; gun; half; hand; hard; haul; head; heat; help; high; hold; hole; home; hope; hotel; hour; hunt; idea; indian; instant; jeered; jim; journey; jump; lad; lads; land; lava; left; life; like; lion; little; long; look; looking; lost; man; matter; meal; meat; medicine; men; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mountain; mrs; mustang; muttered; mystery; nance; nature; near; ned; new; opening; pack; party; perkins; person; pinto; place; plateau; point; ponies; pony; possible; present; pretty; professor; professor zepplin; question; quick; rain; ready; real; rector; red; rest; rider; rider boys; rifle; right; rim; rise; roar; roaring; rocks; rope; run; saddle; safe; scene; second; set; sharp; shot; silver; sir; skin; sleep; smile; smiling; sort; spirit; stacy; stand; start; stop; straight; sudden; sunset; sure; tad; tad butler; talk; thing; thought; time; trail; tree; trip; trying; use; village; voice; wall; walter; watching; way; whiskers; white; wonderful; wood; words; work; wow; years; yell; young; zepplin cache: 12997.txt plain text: 12997.txt item: #6 of 37 id: 19120 author: Carson, James, Captain title: The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain date: None words: 46139 flesch: 87 summary: Both Frank and Bob jumped from their saddles, for the little affair was taking place in the courtyard of an inn that fronted on the street. I believe you're just about right, Bob, said Frank; and it agrees with my own opinion exactly. keywords: able; air; alarm; animal; archer; away; bad; bear; beast; better; big; bit; black; bob; boy; boys; break; buckskin; bunch; burro; burst; business; camp; canyon; care; cattle; cause; cave; chance; chapter; chum; circle; climb; climbing; close; come; coming; companion; comrade; considerable; country; course; cowboy; d'ye; danger; darkness; day; domino; drop; earth; easy; eyes; face; fact; far; father; feet; fellow; fire; foot; frank; frank haywood; game; geyser; girl; glad; going; good; grant; great; grizzly; ground; guess; gun; half; hand; hank; hard; haywood; head; heap; heart; help; high; hold; hole; home; hope; horses; hour; hurry; idea; indians; joe; kentucky; kind; lad; left; life; like; line; little; long; look; loose; lopez; lot; man; manner; matter; mean; men; mexican; mighty; mind; minutes; mountain; mystery; near; neck; need; new; nick; noise; notice; old; open; order; panther; peg; place; plains; plenty; point; prairie; prospectors; queer; quick; ranch; range; ready; reason; reply; rest; rider; rifle; right; rock; rope; run; rustlers; saddle; saw; shake; signs; slope; small; smith; smoke; sort; sound; spanish; spot; stand; start; stick; storm; strange; sudden; supplies; sure; tell; terrible; thing; thinking; thorn; thought; thunder; thunder mountain; time; time frank; torch; town; trail; trouble; true; try; turn; use; voice; wall; water; way; wild; wind; word; work; worth; years; yonder cache: 19120.txt plain text: 19120.txt item: #7 of 37 id: 20087 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in Texas; Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains date: None words: 51157 flesch: 91 summary: Without giving it a chance to rise, Tad sprang upon it, and, when the pony rose, Tad Butler was sitting proudly in the saddle. Tad Gave the Rope a Quick, Rolling Motion. keywords: able; afraid; afternoon; air; animal; away; bad; bank; bates; bed; best; better; big; blow; bob; bow; boy; boys; brayton; break; breakfast; brown; bunch; business; camp; cattle; chapter; chinaman; chuck; chunky; church; colonel; coming; companions; cook; course; cowboys; cowman; cowpunchers; cows; curley; cut; day; days; direction; distance; drive; dust; duty; eating; effort; end; eyes; face; fall; far; feet; fellow; flash; foot; foreman; forward; fourth; free; girls; going; good; gopher; grazing; great; ground; guard; gun; half; hand; hard; head; help; herd; high; hold; hoofs; hope; horns; horse; hour; instant; kid; kind; lad; large; lay; leaders; left; life; lightning; like; line; little; long; look; lumpy; main; making; margaret; master; mcclure; men; miles; mind; miss; moment; morning; mount; near; neck; ned; need; new; old; outfit; outside; pinto; place; plain; point; pong; ponies; pony; position; professor; quick; quirt; ranch; reach; ready; rear; rector; reins; rest; ride; riders; riding; right; river; room; rope; run; running; ruth; saddle; sanders; save; school; series; sharp; shot; sleep; sort; sound; speed; spurs; stacy; stallings; stampede; start; steer; stock; stop; storm; straight; stream; street; sudden; supper; sure; tad; tad butler; thing; thought; time; time tad; trail; trouble; turn; turning; unable; use; voice; wagon; water; west; white; wild; woman; wonder; work; young; zepplin cache: 20087.txt plain text: 20087.txt item: #8 of 37 id: 21841 author: Carson, James, Captain title: The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon; or, The Hermit of the Cave date: None words: 46854 flesch: 85 summary: TURNING THE TABLES--CONCLUSION 195 THE SADDLE BOYS IN THE GRAND CANYON CHAPTER I THE WORK OF THE WOLF PACK Hold up, Bob! Any signs of the lame yearling, Frank? Well, there seems to be something over yonder to the west; but the sage crops up, and interferes a little with my view. When he came to the new country where his father was interested with Frank's in mining ventures, Bob had brought his favorite Kentucky horse, a coal-black stallion known as Domino, and which vied with Frank's native Buckskin in good qualities. keywords: abajo; able; ago; air; animal; answer; away; bad; bent; best; better; big; bit; bob; bomba; book; bottle; boys; breakfast; breed; buckskin; business; camp; canyon; case; cattle; cave; chance; chapter; charley; chesty; chinaman; chum; circle; city; cliff; close; colonel; colorado; colored; coming; company; country; course; cowboy; cupples; curiosity; dad; dark; day; days; den; document; dwellers; east; easy; echo; eugene; eyes; face; fact; far; father; feet; felix; fellow; find; finding; fine; fire; flagstaff; following; fortune; frank; friend; gallop; game; gentleman; glad; going; good; grand; great; ground; guard; guess; guide; half; hand; hank; hard; havasupai; haywood; head; heap; heels; henry; hermit; hide; hiding; high; hold; hole; home; hope; horses; hotel; hour; idea; illustrated; indian; interested; john; kentucky; kind; know; lad; lads; left; leg; leon; let; life; like; line; little; long; look; lost; luck; making; man; manner; matter; mean; men; message; mighty; miles; mind; minute; moi; moqui; morning; motor; mountain; mystery; nature; need; new; news; note; old; open; oswald; pack; paper; party; pay; people; place; plains; point; pretty; professor; queer; ranch; ready; reason; red; reply; ride; rifle; right; river; rock; room; rope; run; saddle; sallie; scientist; second; series; sheriff; signs; sir; small; sort; sounds; spoke; spot; stanwix; start; stockman; strange; sun; sure; surprise; talking; ted; tell; tent; things; think; thinking; thought; time; trail; trouble; try; turn; turning; uncle; understand; use; view; voice; volume; warringford; way; white; wild; window; wolf; wonderful; word; work; years; young cache: 21841.txt plain text: 21841.txt item: #9 of 37 id: 26318 author: Hayes, Alice M. title: The Horsewoman: A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. date: None words: 97977 flesch: 72 summary: My husband, in _Riding and Hunting_, says it is the fashion to wear spurs with top-boots, but many good horses go much better without them. When I rode him, I found he was always looking out for an excuse to play up, or to lash out at other horses. keywords: able; accident; account; action; adoption; advantage; advice; aid; animal; ankle; appearance; arrangement; assistance; attempt; attention; australian; backs; bad; balance; ball; bar; bars; beginner; best; better; big; body; bone; book; boots; breaking; breast; breeches; bridle; broken; buck; business; calcutta; canter; capable; captain; care; careful; case; centre; certain; chain; chance; chapter; charge; chief; children; circle; clear; close; cloth; coat; cold; collar; comfortable; command; competent; condition; control; correct; country; course; covering; covert; crop; cross; crossed; crown; cruelty; crutch; crutches; cub; curb; cut; dangerous; day; days; deal; desire; different; difficult; direction; distance; ditch; dog; double; draw; dress; driving; ease; easier; easy; edition; effect; efforts; elastic; end; equine; event; exercise; experience; extent; fact; fair; fall; falling; farmers; fashion; fast; fear; feeling; feet; fence; field; fig; figs; find; fine; fit; fitting; fixed; flap; flat; following; foot; fore; form; forward; fox; foxhound; free; friends; gallop; galloping; garment; gate; girls; girths; giving; gloves; good; great; greater; grip; groom; ground; habit; hacking; hair; half; hand; hard; hat; hayes; head; heart; heavy; help; high; higher; hind; hold; holding; home; hoof; hooked; hope; horse; horsemen; horsewoman; hounds; hunter; hunting; hunting field; husband; idea; illustration; important; inches; inclined; india; inexperienced; instance; iron; jaw; joints; jorrocks; jumping; keeping; kick; kind; kindly; knee; ladies; lady; land; large; latch; late; lead; lean; leaping; learning; leather; left; left hand; leg; legs; leicestershire; length; lesson; liable; life; like; likely; line; little; long; look; loose; lord; lower; majority; male; man; management; manner; mare; martingale; master; material; means; meet; melton; melville; men; method; mind; miss; moment; mount; mouth; movement; mrs; muscles; narrow; natural; near; necessary; necessity; neck; need; nerve; nervous; new; nice; nose; notice; number; object; obstacle; occasion; old; ones; open; opening; order; ordinary; pack; pain; parts; passing; people; perfect; performance; person; photographs; piece; place; plan; play; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; point; polo; pommel; pony; poor; portion; position; possible; practical; practice; presence; present; pressure; proper; pull; punishment; pupil; puppies; puppy; pups; purpose; quarters; question; quiet; rails; ready; rear; rearing; regard; reins; required; respect; rest; result; ridden; rider; ridge; riding; right; right leg; rise; road; rough; rule; run; running; saddle; saddle riding; safety; school; season; seat; second; severe; sex; shape; sharp; shires; short; shoulder; shying; sides; similar; single; skin; skirt; small; smart; snaffle; soft; sore; sound; speed; spur; stable; standing; state; steady; stiff; stirrup; straight; strap; strong; style; subject; sudden; sufficient; supposing; surface; tail; taking; teaching; teeth; temper; tendency; thick; thing; thought; time; tone; touch; training; tree; trot; trotting; trouble; turn; turning; unable; upper; use; useful; usual; veterinary; vicious; view; voice; walk; walking; wall; want; water; way; wear; wearer; weight; whip; white; winter; wire; wise; withers; woman; word; work; wrong; years; young; young horse cache: 26318.txt plain text: 26318.txt item: #10 of 37 id: 28090 author: Ward, C. S. title: Hints on Driving date: None words: 6702 flesch: 73 summary: Not long after this interview, the Brighton Day Mail being about to start, he made me the offer, to drive the whole distance and horse the coach a stage, with the option of driving it without horsing. During the last twenty-five years I have been engaged keeping livery stables and breaking horses to harness, and in that period I have had some very narrow escapes. keywords: accident; art; bad; box; case; coach; coaches; coaching; coachman; course; day; days; defiance; devonport; distance; drive; driving; exeter; fast; following; gentleman; good; great; guard; hand; hill; hold; horn; horses; journey; left; like; little; london; long; mail; miles; morning; new; night; old; plymouth; rail; reins; road; rule; street; tally; team; telegraph; time; tom; turn; use; way; wheel; whip; years; young cache: 28090.txt plain text: 28090.txt item: #11 of 37 id: 28612 author: Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon) title: A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid date: None words: 77420 flesch: 72 summary: When held and guided properly, few horses resist more than ten minutes; and it is believed that a quarter of an hour is the utmost time that any horse has ever fought before sinking exhausted to the earth. Other horses, cattle, pigs, and even dogs or fowls moving about or making a noise, will spoil the effect of a good lesson. keywords: 8vo; accustomed; acres; advantage; air; american; animal; appearance; approach; arms; art; assistance; attempt; attention; author; average; bad; bath; baucher; beautiful; benefit; best; better; big; bit; black; body; book; boots; boy; boys; break; breaking; breast; breeches; bridle; brighton; brocklesby; broken; broken horse; brown; buckle; business; captain; care; carriage; cart; case; cavalry; celebrated; century; certain; change; chapter; charles; check; christian; circus; class; clear; close; cloth; cold; colonel; colt; common; complete; condition; confidence; corn; counties; country; courage; course; cover; crowd; cruiser; cry; curb; cut; danger; dangerous; day; days; deal; deep; deer; degrees; difficult; dinner; directions; distance; district; ditch; door; double; doubt; dress; dry; early; easy; edition; effect; end; england; english; equal; esq; essential; excitement; exercise; exmoor; experience; extra; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; familiar; far; farmers; fashion; fashionable; fast; father; fcap; fear; fed; feel; feeling; feet; fences; field; find; fire; firm; fit; flat; following; foot; footnotes; fore; form; forward; fox; french; fresh; friend; frightened; gag; gallop; gate; general; gentlemen; george; gilt; good; grass; gray; great; green; guide; habit; hack; half; halter; hand; handed; handling; hard; hare; harm; harness; harriers; hay; head; heavy; help; high; hills; hind; history; hold; holding; horn; horse; horse exercise; horse stand; horseback; horseman; horsemanship; hot; hounds; hour; hunter; hunting; huntsman; hurry; idea; ignorant; illustrated; illustration; important; improved; indian; john; jump; kind; knee; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; large; late; lead; leading; leap; leather; leave; left; legs; length; lessons; lettered; life; like; likely; lincolnshire; line; list; little; live; london; long; look; looking; loop; loose; lord; love; man; manner; mare; marquis; marryat; master; means; meet; men; mere; method; middle; miles; military; mind; minutes; mistake; modern; moment; months; morning; motion; mount; mouth; natural; nature; near; necessary; neck; need; nerve; nervous; new; nolan; nose; notice; number; o'clock; object; old; open; operation; opportunity; opposite; order; original; pack; pair; paris; park; party; pasture; patience; pelham; people; perfect; perfection; place; plan; pleasant; pleasure; point; pommel; ponies; pony; poor; popular; position; possible; post; power; practice; prescott; present; pretty; price; principles; private; process; proper; pull; pulling; pupils; purpose; quarter; quiet; race; racing; rarey; reach; ready; real; reason; red; reins; rest; result; return; ride; riders; riding; right; right hand; rise; road; robe; room; rough; round; rule; run; running; runs; saddle; safe; scarlet; scent; school; seat; second; sense; set; severe; sharp; sheep; short; shoulder; simple; single; sir; size; sketch; skill; slow; small; snaffle; spirited; sportsmen; spurs; squire; stable; stafford; stag; stand; standing; start; steady; steel; step; stirrup; stock; stone; stop; stout; straight; strange; strap; street; strength; strong; study; style; subscribers; sufficient; surcingle; sure; system; tail; tally; taming; teaching; thick; thing; thorough; thought; time; timid; tongue; touch; town; trainer; training; treatment; trot; trouble; true; turf; turn; turning; use; useful; valleys; valuable; value; vicious; vicious horse; view; violent; voice; vols; walk; want; warm; water; way; wear; week; weight; whip; white; wide; wild; wild horse; wolds; wooden; word; work; worst; wrong; yard; years; young cache: 28612.txt plain text: 28612.txt item: #12 of 37 id: 29248 author: Anonymous title: The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual date: None words: 16458 flesch: 61 summary: It is, also, excessively rapid;--good _pacers_ beating other horses at a gallop. Page INTRODUCTION 7 EQUESTRIAN TECHNICALITIES 23 THE LADY'S HORSE 26 PERSONAL EQUIPMENTS 31 ACCOUTREMENTS FOR THE HORSE 33 RULES OF THE ROAD 34 MODE OF MOUNTING 36 MANAGEMENT OF THE REINS 41 THE SEAT AND BALANCE 44 AIDS AND DEFENCES 51 SOOTHINGS AND ANIMATIONS 55 CORRECTIONS 58 VICES 60 EXERCISES IN THE PACES 71 THE WALK 73 THE TROT 79 THE CANTER 81 THE GALLOP 84 STOPPING AND BACKING 85 LEAPING 87 DISMOUNTING 91 CONCLUDING REMARKS 95 keywords: action; advance; aids; animal; animations; backward; balance; body; bridle; canter; care; case; circle; country; croup; crutch; danger; defences; degree; direction; easy; effect; equestrian; exercise; fair; feet; female; fingers; foot; fore; forward; general; gentleman; great; groom; habit; hand; head; horse; horseback; illustration; inclination; knee; ladies; lady; leap; left; left hand; leg; legs; lessons; line; little; long; lower; manner; means; mode; mouth; near; necessary; neck; object; order; pace; passing; perfect; period; position; practice; proper; pull; pupil; reins; rider; riding; right; right hand; round; saddle; seat; second; shoulder; speed; stirrup; stop; time; trot; turn; turning; upper; use; walk; weight; whip; work; young cache: 29248.txt plain text: 29248.txt item: #13 of 37 id: 30588 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska; Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass date: None words: 40685 flesch: 92 summary: If it isn't Stacy Brown raising a row it's Tad Butler, and if it isn't Tad it's a midnight robber. Shouted Tad. _Frontispiece._] THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN ALASKA OR THE GOLD DIGGERS OF TAKU PASS By FRANK GEE PATCHIN Author of The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies, The Pony Rider Boys in Texas, The Pony Rider Boys in Montana, The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks, The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali, The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico, The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon, The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers, The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge, The Pony Rider Boys in New England, The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana, etc., etc. Illustrated THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY Akron, Ohio--New York Made in U. S. A. Copyright MCMXXIV By THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS PAGE Chapter I--Through Enchanting Waters 11 keywords: able; air; alaska; angry; animal; antelope; anvik; bad; better; big; black; boat; boy; boys; breakfast; brown; business; butler; camp; campfire; captain; care; case; chapter; chunky; claim; cold; companions; corsair; country; course; curtis; dark; darwood; dawson; day; dead; deck; diggers; distance; doctor; early; edge; end; eyes; face; fall; far; fat; fat boy; feet; fellow; find; fire; following; foot; freckle; friends; glance; going; gold; good; great; ground; guess; guide; half; hand; hard; head; heap; help; hold; hope; horse; hour; hurry; idea; indian; ketcham; kind; lad; leave; left; like; line; little; long; look; lot; man; matter; mean; mebby; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; mountain; mouth; mule; mush; muttered; ned; need; new; nodded; open; outfit; owner; pack; party; pass; perkins; place; plenty; point; ponies; pony; pretty; professor; professor zepplin; provisions; quick; ready; rector; rest; rider; rifle; right; rock; rope; sandy; second; set; sharp; shot; silence; sir; skipper; sleep; slide; smoke; sort; sound; stacy; stick; stop; story; stream; sure; tad; tad butler; taking; taku; talk; tent; thank; thing; thought; time; trail; trouble; turn; voice; walter; watch; waters; way; whiskers; white; wild; word; work; worth; young; zepplin cache: 30588.txt plain text: 30588.txt item: #14 of 37 id: 31957 author: Unknown title: Lectures on Horsemanship Wherein Is Explained Every Necessary Instruction for Both Ladies and Gentlemen, in the Useful and Polite Art of Riding, with Ease, Elegance, and Safety date: None words: 11093 flesch: 34 summary: Xenophon_, who wrote three hundred years before the Birth of _Christ_, says, in an express treatise which he wrote on Horsemanship, that Cyrus hunted on Horseback, when he had a mind to exercise himself and horses. The knowledge of the different characters, and different natures of horses, together with the vices and imperfections, as well as the exact and just proportions of the parts of a horse's body, is the foundation upon which is built the theory of the art of horsemanship; but this theory will be useless and even unnecessary if we are not able to carry it into execution. keywords: able; bit; body; bridle; bridoun; certain; course; degree; different; ease; easy; end; feeling; finger; firm; firmness; flat; foot; good; hand; hold; horse; horseman; horsemanship; ladies; lady; left; left hand; leg; little; manner; master; means; method; motions; mouth; natural; nature; near; necessary; neck; parts; place; position; practice; principles; reins; rest; ride; riding; right; right hand; rules; saddle; seat; shoulders; stirrup; thighs; thumb; time; turn; use; weight cache: 31957.txt plain text: 31957.txt item: #15 of 37 id: 35521 author: Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John) title: Riding Recollections, 5th ed. date: None words: 66727 flesch: 76 summary: He calmed, however, before the end of the burst, which was a very brilliant gallop, over a practicable country, and when I sent him home at two o'clock, I felt satisfied I had a game, good horse, that would soon make a capital hunter. Yet it is extraordinary how many good fellows riding good horses find themselves defeated in a gallop after hounds, from indecision and uncertainty, rather than want of courage, when the emergency actually arises. keywords: 10s; 12s; 14s; 16s; 18s; 4to; 8vo; accomplished; account; action; advantage; air; amusement; animal; answer; art; assistance; attempt; attention; author; awkward; bad; bank; bend; best; better; bit; black; blood; body; bold; books; bridle; brilliant; broken; brook; brute; business; canter; care; careful; cases; catalogue; cause; certain; chance; chapter; charles; chase; check; christmas; circumstances; clear; close; cloth; coercion; collected; collection; colonel; coloured; colt; common; complete; condition; confidence; considerable; consideration; control; countries; country; couple; courage; course; covert; critical; cross; crossing; crown; crown 8vo; curb; danger; dangerous; daring; dash; day; days; deal; deep; deer; degree; demy; demy 8vo; determined; diagrams; dickens; different; difficult; direction; discretion; distance; districts; ditch; double; doubt; dozen; drawing; drop; early; easy; edition; education; effort; elementary; end; energy; england; english; enjoyment; essential; examples; excitement; exercise; experience; extraordinary; eye; eyes; face; fair; fall; far; fast; fault; favourite; fear; feet; fence; field; find; fine; finest; finish; firm; fly; folio; following; foot; foothold; forbidding; force; form; formidable; forward; fox; frame; free; french; friend; fun; furrow; gallant; gallop; game; gate; general; gentleman; george; good; good horse; grass; great; ground; habit; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; heavy; high; hill; hind; history; hold; home; horse; horsemanship; horsemen; hounds; hour; human; hunter; hunting; huntsman; hurry; idea; illustrated; illustrations; imperial; inch; instinct; instrument; ireland; irish; iron; john; jumping; kensington; kind; kindness; king; knees; lady; landing; large; leader; leap; leaves; legs; leicestershire; level; life; like; likely; line; little; london; long; look; loose; lord; making; man; manual; mark; master; means; meet; melton; mere; middle; miles; mind; minutes; models; moment; moor; morocco; mounted; mouth; museum; mutual; natural; nature; near; necessary; neck; need; nerve; new; noble; nose; notice; november; numerous; object; obstacle; occasion; old; oliver; open; opinion; ornament; pack; page; paper; parts; patience; pelham; perfect; personal; phiz; place; plates; play; pleasure; plenty; pluck; point; portrait; position; possess; possible; post; post 8vo; power; powerful; practical; practice; prepared; present; pressure; principles; process; professor; pull; pupil; qualities; quality; quarters; question; quick; race; rail; rapid; ready; reason; rein; result; rider; ridge; riding; right; rise; road; room; royal; rule; run; running; saddle; safety; sagacity; scent; school; science; scramble; seat; second; self; sense; series; set; shape; sheets; shires; shoulders; single; sir; size; skeleton; sketches; skill; slightest; slow; small; smith; smooth; snaffle; sound; speed; sport; sportsman; spring; spurs; stable; stag; stand; standing; start; stirrup; stone; straight; strength; stride; strong; stronger; style; success; sure; surface; surprised; system; temper; terms; thorough; thought; timber; time; tired; touch; trot; truth; tuition; turn; unmounted; use; usual; vale; valour; view; vols; walk; wall; want; watch; water; way; week; weight; whip; white; wide; wild; wind; wise; wood; work; world; wrong; yards; years; young; â£1; â£2 cache: 35521.txt plain text: 35521.txt item: #16 of 37 id: 36423 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali; Or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze date: None words: 49886 flesch: 92 summary: Master Tad is a better one. But Master Tad had already been using his eyes. keywords: able; afraid; afternoon; air; alkali; angel; animal; attention; bad; band; battle; better; big; black; blow; body; boys; breakfast; breath; broncho; brown; brush; bud; bunch; burros; busy; butler; camp; chapter; chunky; circle; close; clothes; cloud; companions; corral; country; course; cowboy; coyote; dark; day; days; desert; direction; distance; door; drink; dry; dust; end; eureka; eyes; face; fall; far; fast; fat; fear; feet; fellows; find; fine; fire; following; foot; foothills; good; great; ground; guess; guide; half; hand; head; heat; help; herd; hermit; hind; hold; hole; hope; horse; hour; hunters; hurt; idea; instant; kiddie; kind; lad; lads; late; leader; leave; left; like; line; little; long; look; lost; man; master; maze; meal; mean; miles; mind; minute; moment; moon; morning; morrow; mountain; mouth; muttered; near; neck; ned; need; new; old; open; outfit; pack; pajamas; parry; place; ponies; pony; professor; quick; range; ready; real; rector; rest; rider; rider boys; rifle; right; rocks; rope; run; saddle; sage; sand; satan; scene; second; series; set; shade; shot; shrill; sleep; sombrero; sound; spurs; stacy; stallion; start; stevens; stock; stop; sun; supper; sure; surprise; tad; tad butler; tell; tents; thing; thought; time; tom; town; trail; trouble; try; trying; turn; use; voice; want; water; way; west; white; wide; wild; wish; work; yell; young; zepplin cache: 36423.txt plain text: 36423.txt item: #17 of 37 id: 36701 author: Wayte, Samuel C. title: Graceful Riding: A Pocket Manual for Equestrians date: None words: 10798 flesch: 72 summary: SAFE for holding the reins, when using _one_ or _both_ hands. When rearing_, the whole weight of horse and rider being thrown perpendicularly on the animal's hind legs, the _most trifling_ check from the rider's hand would cause him to fall backwards; the rider must drop his hand as before, loosen the reins, and throw his whole weight on his shoulders, at the same time catching him 'round the neck with his right hand. keywords: accidents; action; animal; appearance; arm; author; bad; body; bridle; bridoon; cases; cause; centre; command; correct; curb; directions; easy; equestrian; erect; fall; feeling; finger; firm; foot; good; graceful; great; ground; habit; hand; head; hold; horse; importance; inches; kindness; knee; ladies; lady; leap; left; legs; length; little; long; management; means; motion; mouth; near; place; position; possible; pressure; proper; reins; rider; riding; right; right hand; saddle; seat; second; shoulders; skirt; steady; stirrup; thumb; time; trot; use; waite; way; weight; whip; work cache: 36701.txt plain text: 36701.txt item: #18 of 37 id: 37271 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire date: None words: 44801 flesch: 78 summary: It was so strange and so unexpected that at present Jack herself was scarcely able to accept the momentous fact. I agree with you, Frieda, I wish Jack _had_ stayed at home this afternoon. keywords: able; acquaintance; afraid; afternoon; american; answer; audience; best; better; big; billy; blue; boy; captain; care; case; cattle; chance; chapter; colter; companion; congress; country; course; cowboys; day; days; deal; dear; decision; desire; dinner; effort; england; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; far; fashion; father; frieda; friends; frightened; girls; glad; gold; good; great; greater; hair; half; hand; hard; head; heart; help; henry; home; hope; horses; hour; house; hurt; husband; idea; important; instant; interest; jack; jacqueline; jacqueline kent; jean; jim; jim colter; jimmie; john; kent; kind; lady; large; later; left; life; little; little girls; living; lodge; long; look; macdonnell; making; manner; married; marshall; matter; men; merritt; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; near; need; neighborhood; neighbors; new; news; night; nomination; number; office; old; older; olive; opinion; opportunity; outside; past; people; persons; peter; place; political; politics; pony; porch; position; possible; present; preston; pretty; professor; public; question; rainbow; rainbow ranch; ralph; ralston; ranch; ranch girls; ranchmen; return; ride; riding; room; run; russell; self; senator; simple; sister; small; sorry; speech; spite; state; stevens; subject; suggestion; sure; talk; talking; things; thought; time; tired; trouble; united; usual; voice; way; western; wish; woman; wonder; work; world; wyoming; years; young cache: 37271.txt plain text: 37271.txt item: #19 of 37 id: 37445 author: Jenkins, T. A. title: The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation date: None words: 11598 flesch: 59 summary: Horses are by degrees made obedient, through the hope of recompense, as well as the fear of punishment; to use these two incentives with judgment, is a very difficult matter, requiring much thought, much practice and good temper; mere force, and want of skill, and coolness, tend to confirm vice and restiveness. Weakness_ frequently drives horses into being vicious, when any thing beyond their strength is required of them: great care should therefore be taken, to ascertain from what cause the opposition arises. keywords: action; animal; bad; balance; bearing; bit; body; bridle; canter; crutch; curb; direction; ease; feet; finger; flank; foot; fore; forward; good; ground; habit; hand; head; hind; horse; impulse; knee; lady; leap; left; left hand; leg; legs; little; mouth; movement; near; necessary; neck; paces; place; position; pressure; proper; pull; reins; rider; riding; right; right hand; saddle; seat; shoulder; snaffle; steady; step; stirrup; time; turn; use; walk; whip cache: 37445.txt plain text: 37445.txt item: #20 of 37 id: 38184 author: Baucher, François title: New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. date: None words: 37195 flesch: 67 summary: [Illustration: MR. BAUCHER, upon Partisan.] NEW METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP, INCLUDING THE BREAKING AND TRAINING OF HORSES, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING A GOOD SEAT. ILLUSTRATED. The captain-instructors and one lieutenant from the troops of horse stationed in the neighborhood of Paris will be ordered to Luneville during those months to study the Baucher system. keywords: able; action; address; aid; animal; application; backing; bad; baucher; bit; body; breaking; broken; case; causes; centre; certain; changes; chapter; commence; complete; contraction; contrary; croup; curb; days; degree; different; difficulties; difficulty; direction; disposition; ease; easy; education; effect; efforts; equilibrium; execute; execution; exercise; extremities; feet; flexions; foot; forces; fore; formation; forward; free; gallop; general; good; gravity; great; ground; half; hand; harmony; haunches; head; hind; hold; horse; horsemanship; horsemen; important; impulse; inches; increase; indispensable; instinctive; instructor; jaw; kind; lateral; left; left hand; legs; lessons; lightness; line; little; loins; long; means; method; moment; motion; motive; mouth; movement; natural; nature; necessary; neck; new; officers; opposite; order; ordinary; paces; painful; parts; perfect; performance; perpendicular; physical; piaffer; place; point; position; possible; power; precede; pressure; principles; proper; pupil; ramener; rassembler; regular; regularity; reins; resistances; results; rider; right; right hand; saddle; seat; second; short; shoulders; simple; slight; snaffle; spur; stationary; stiffness; straight; subject; sufficient; suppling; support; system; time; touch; trot; true; use; walk; way; weight; wish; work cache: 38184.txt plain text: 38184.txt item: #21 of 37 id: 38831 author: Henderson, Robert, active 1866-1874 title: The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises date: None words: 61328 flesch: 64 summary: Her genius (if I may be permitted the expression), joined to close application and the best of opportunities of riding good horses, enabled her in a brief space to far outstrip all her youthful competitors, and in less than twelve months after the time I speak of she could execute most of the bending lesson, at a canter as well as a professional rider, while over the country with hounds she was always close to her pilot, than whom there was no better man. The present form of treating hunting horses is diametrically the reverse of the foregoing. keywords: accomplished; accustomed; action; aids; animal; answer; appearance; appui; arm; arms; assistant; attempt; attention; bad; balance; bar; beginner; bend; bent; best; better; big; bit; boards; body; book; bridle; bridoon; broken; canter; cantering; capital; care; careful; case; centre; certain; change; chapter; class; clear; close; closing; collected; confidence; considerable; correct; country; couple; course; covert; crutch; curb; danger; day; days; delicate; different; difficult; distance; double; dress; early; easy; effect; effort; elbows; equal; equestrian; equitation; exercise; experience; eye; fact; fair; fashion; fashionable; fast; feeling; feet; female; fence; field; figure; finger; firm; firmness; fit; following; foot; fore; forehand; form; forward; freedom; gallop; gate; general; gentleman; getting; giving; going; good; great; greater; greatest; groom; ground; habit; half; hand; hat; haunches; head; health; heel; high; hind; hold; home; horse; horseback; hounds; hunting; illustration; important; india; indispensable; instructor; inward; jump; jumping; kind; knee; ladies; lady; large; leaping; leather; left; left hand; left leg; leg; legs; length; lesson; like; likely; line; little; long; making; man; manner; master; means; middle; military; mind; mode; moment; motion; mouth; movement; natural; near; necessary; necessity; neck; nerve; open; opinion; order; outward; passage; people; pilot; place; play; plenty; point; pommel; position; possible; power; practice; precision; pressure; proper; pull; pupil; purpose; question; quiet; ready; rear; reason; regards; reins; requisite; result; rider; riding; right; right hand; right leg; road; row; rule; run; saddle; school; seat; second; set; sharp; short; shoulder; simple; skirt; snaffle; speed; spring; spur; square; standing; steadiness; steady; step; stirrup; straight; strong; style; sufficient; supple; suppling; support; teaching; thing; thorough; thumb; time; trot; trotting; true; turn; turning; upper; upwards; use; waist; walk; walking; water; way; weight; whip; woman; word; work; wrong; years; young; young lady cache: 38831.txt plain text: 38831.txt item: #22 of 37 id: 39115 author: Cobbold, Richard title: Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours date: None words: 22375 flesch: 81 summary: She holds a medallion of the Doctor, a striking portrait, in her right hand; and in her left, the celebrated brazen trumpet of Fame; and, no doubt, whether his angelic daughter or his faithful domestic, she was one who knew so well the admirable worth of the good physician, that she simply means to say,--May the cheerful spirit of such good men as Doctor Gambado live for ever, and drive out of all splenetic patients, the tormenting stings of the Blue Devils. He himself took a mansion on Blackheath, and there he sought in vain for that enjoyment of rest and contentment, which good men only inherit in their latter end. keywords: abraham; account; action; advice; age; angel; animal; author; best; better; blackheath; body; bread; bull; bunbury; carriage; case; cassock; celebrated; change; chapter; character; cheerful; cheque; complaint; conscience; course; court; cure; daughter; day; days; dealer; dear; deuce; doctor; doctor gambado; domestic; doubt; esq; evil; exercise; eyes; f.r.s; fact; faculty; fall; fame; favourite; fellow; friend; gambado; gentleman; geoffery; glad; good; great; greathead; green; half; halves; hand; happy; hat; head; health; heart; high; home; hope; horse; horse dealer; horseback; hour; illustration; john; john tattsall; journey; kind; law; legs; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; love; man; mare; master; means; men; mind; moment; money; morning; nervous; new; nose; old; pace; patients; people; physician; poor; practice; profession; purpose; quiet; reins; reply; ride; riding; right; road; rode; ryecross; saddle; servant; short; sir; stables; street; strong; sturgeon; suit; suited; sure; system; tattsall; things; thought; time; treatment; truth; use; want; way; whip; wife; wind; wise; wish; words; work; world; years; york cache: 39115.txt plain text: 39115.txt item: #23 of 37 id: 39236 author: Various title: In the Saddle: A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding date: None words: 33618 flesch: 92 summary: For the plain is aflame, the prairie on fire, And feet of wild horses hard flying before I hear like a sea breaking high on the shore, While the buffalo come like a surge of the sea, Driven far by the flame, driving fast on us three As a hurricane comes, crushing palms in his ire. Then, in the boyhood of the year, Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere Rode through the coverts of the deer, With blissful treble ringing clear. keywords: air; arms; barb; battle; bay; bear; beat; bed; bell; beneath; bent; best; better; birds; black; bliss; blood; blow; blue; bold; bonny; boot; borne; brave; break; breast; breath; bridal; bridle; bright; browning; bugle; bush; castle; chase; child; chime; clear; close; cold; courser; cross; crown; cry; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desert; despair; desperate; distant; doom; door; dost; dream; earl; earth; echoes; ere; erl; eyes; face; faint; faintly; fair; fall; far; fast; fate; father; fear; feet; fields; fiery; fire; flame; flash; flight; flying; foam; foe; foot; ford; forest; form; forth; forward; free; friar; friend; furious; gallant; gallop; gate; gilpin; glance; gloom; god; gold; good; grass; gray; great; green; grew; hair; half; hand; hard; hark; haste; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavy; helen; hell; high; hill; hold; home; hoofs; horn; horse; hot; hour; human; hurrah; hurry; instant; john; joy; king; kiss; knee; kunigunde; kynast; lady; land; late; lay; leap; leave; left; leigh; length; life; like; limbs; line; lips; little; lonely; long; look; lord; loud; love; low; lützow; man; mane; master; midnight; mighty; miles; mind; mission; moment; moon; morning; moss; mother; mountain; narrow; near; nearer; neck; need; new; night; noble; nose; o'er; ocean; old; onward; pale; past; path; paul; pause; place; plain; play; proud; queen; race; red; rein; revere; rhyme; ride; riding; ring; river; road; roan; robert; rose; round; rung; saddle; safe; savage; scarce; scott; sea; set; shadows; sheridan; shore; silence; silver; sir; sky; small; snow; soft; song; soul; space; spirit; spring; spur; star; steed; stone; stood; storm; stream; strength; strong; sudden; sun; sweet; swift; tacey; tail; tall; tam; terrible; thee; thick; thine; thomas; thou; thought; thro; thunder; tide; time; tis; toll; tower; town; track; tramp; tread; trees; true; turn; twas; vain; valley; village; voice; wall; walter; waves; way; weary; weather; white; widderin; wide; wife; wild; wildgrave; william; wind; wine; woe; woman; wood; word; years; yonder; young cache: 39236.txt plain text: 39236.txt item: #24 of 37 id: 39244 author: Dodge, Theodore Ayrault title: Patroclus and Penelope: A Chat in the Saddle date: None words: 41098 flesch: 78 summary: Many horses will naturally fall into a canter if you shake the reins; but some who come of trotting stock will not do so without considerable effort; and still such a horse is often the best one to buy. But I have seen many horses who would do this very readily inside school walls, who were very stupid or refractory on a straight bit of road. keywords: ability; able; accomplished; action; agreeable; airs; animal; apt; army; art; artist; author; average; bad; baucher; best; better; bit; blood; book; boston; bridle; canter; catch; cavalry; certain; change; circle; close; collected; comfort; common; company; condition; country; courage; course; cross; croup; curb; daily; dangerous; day; days; deal; different; difficult; direction; dodge; doubt; dozen; ease; easy; education; england; english; equal; equestrian; equestrianism; equitation; excellent; experience; eye; fact; fall; fancy; fashion; feel; feet; field; fine; flexions; foot; fore; forehand; form; forward; fox; friend; gait; gallop; gate; general; gentle; good; great; grip; ground; habit; half; hand; hard; head; heart; high; higher; hind; hints; hold; home; horse; horsemanship; horsemen; hounds; hour; hunter; hunting; idea; illustration; indication; instruction; intelligence; jog; jump; jumping; knee; knowledge; lead; leading; leap; left; legs; life; like; little; long; longer; look; man; manner; manège; mare; master; means; men; mere; methods; mile; military; mind; months; motion; mount; mouth; movement; natural; near; necessary; neck; need; nelly; new; number; obstacle; old; ones; opposite; park; patroclus; penelope; perfect; photographs; pirouette; place; plates; pleasant; pleasure; position; possible; power; practice; pressure; pretty; proper; pull; purpose; quiet; rack; ready; reason; reins; result; rider; riding; right; rise; road; rule; run; running; saddle; saddle horse; school; seat; second; sharp; short; shoulder; simple; single; slow; snaffle; soft; sound; speed; spur; stable; stand; start; steady; step; stirrup; straight; stride; study; style; supple; teaching; thing; thoroughbred; time; tom; training; trot; true; turf; turn; type; use; uses; value; walk; want; water; way; weather; weight; whip; word; work; years; york; young cache: 39244.txt plain text: 39244.txt item: #25 of 37 id: 39501 author: O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs. title: Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-riding, and Hunting, with Hints Upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes date: None words: 64234 flesch: 72 summary: If you have to cross a river or very wide ditch, come fast at it, in order that the impetus may swing you safely over; few horses can cross a wide jump without having what is called a run at it. This lady says that the nicest bridle for a beginner is a plain ring-snaffle, but states further that few horses will go in it; the latter remark, if correct, (which I should venture to doubt), raises a fatal objection to the ring-snaffle, as I fear that not one young lady in twenty, under amateur teaching, would be put upon a perfectly trained nag, desirable as this must be; and thus an ordinary stout mouth plain snaffle, or plain bar with single rein, would surely be preferable. keywords: able; accident; accomplished; accustomed; advantage; advice; advocate; altogether; america; animal; answer; appearance; art; article; attempt; attendant; backs; bad; balance; bay; beautiful; best; better; big; black; body; book; boots; box; branch; bridle; buckle; canter; captain; care; careful; case; certain; change; chapter; children; circumstances; clark; close; cloth; co.; cold; comfort; comfortable; companion; complete; considerable; correspondent; costume; country; courage; course; covert; creature; cross; cruel; curb; cut; daily; danger; dangerous; dark; day; days; description; desire; difficult; distance; ditch; double; doubt; dress; driving; ease; easy; effect; empress; endeavour; england; english; evening; excellent; exercise; experience; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; far; fast; fault; feeding; feet; felt; fence; field; finding; fine; fingers; firm; fit; following; food; foot; form; fox; free; friend; general; gentleman; girl; gloves; going; good; got; grass; great; greater; groom; ground; habit; hair; half; hand; hard; harness; hat; head; heart; heavy; heels; hersilie; high; hints; hold; home; hope; horse; horseback; horsewoman; hounds; hunter; hunting; idea; ignorant; illustrated; inches; instance; instant; interest; iron; issue; journal; judgment; jump; jumping; keeping; kind; kindly; kindness; knee; ladies; lady; land; large; late; leaping; learner; leather; left; leg; legs; length; letters; life; like; likely; line; little; london; long; look; looking; loose; lost; man; management; manner; matter; means; meet; men; mighty; miles; mind; mistake; mode; moment; morning; motion; mount; mouth; mrs; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; neck; need; new; news; nicest; noble; november; number; numerous; o'donoghue; oats; objection; objectionable; obstacle; occasion; offer; old; ones; open; opinion; order; ordinary; owner; paper; park; particular; patent; perfect; persons; piece; pilot; place; plain; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; portion; position; possible; power; practice; prepared; present; pressure; pretty; price; proper; pull; purpose; queen; question; readers; ready; rearing; regard; rein; remarks; reply; result; ride; riders; riding; right; rise; risk; river; road; rough; rowel; rule; run; running; saddle; safety; save; season; seat; second; sense; servant; set; severe; sex; shape; sharp; shoe; short; shoulders; single; sir; sir,--i; skirt; slight; small; snaffle; soft; space; sporting; spring; spur; stable; stand; state; steed; stirrup; straight; strap; street; strong; style; subject; sufficient; support; sure; system; tail; temper; thank; thing; thought; time; tired; touch; trot; trotting; trouble; true; turn; ugly; use; useful; vain; valuable; visit; walk; water; waterproof; way; wear; weight; wet; whip; wide; wish; woman; word; work; worn; worth; writing; yard; years; young cache: 39501.txt plain text: 39501.txt item: #26 of 37 id: 39605 author: Bussigny, H. L. de (Henry L. de) title: Hand-book for Horsewomen date: None words: 19302 flesch: 76 summary: This is the basis of the whole manege system, and it is thus that horses are made to _passage_, to _piaffer_, or even to trot backward. I was tempted to make this digression, which I hope will be forgiven me, because I have heard in this country a great deal of adverse and, in my opinion, unjust criticism of the English trot, which I ascribe to the neglect of teachers, and the indifference of ladies brought up in the old school of riding to prefer horses which cantered all the time, or were broken to artificial gaits, like racking and pacing. keywords: animal; arm; backward; beginning; best; bit; body; care; case; certain; charles; class; cloth; columns; correct; cts; direction; ease; easy; effects; end; equilibrium; fall; feet; file; fingers; foot; fore; forward; gait; gallop; good; great; ground; habit; half; hand; head; help; hind; horse; horseback; knee; lady; leaders; lean; left; left hand; left leg; leg; legs; lessons; line; little; long; means; mouth; movement; order; paper; place; point; pommel; position; possible; practice; pressure; pupil; reins; result; reversed; rider; riding; right; right foot; right hand; right leg; saddle; school; seat; second; short; shoulders; sides; space; stiffness; stirrup; stop; story; straight; support; teacher; time; trot; turn; upper; use; volte; walk; way; weight; whip; wrists; years cache: 39605.txt plain text: 39605.txt item: #27 of 37 id: 39610 author: Kerr, W. A. (William Alexander) title: Riding for Ladies date: None words: 26898 flesch: 69 summary: A blood, or at furthest, two crosses of blood on a good foundation, horse will carry this weight as well as it can be carried. There has been a certain moral obliquity attached to dealing in horses ever since, and probably before, they of the House of Togarmah traded in Tyrian fairs with horses, horsemen, and mules. keywords: action; animal; appearance; arms; attempt; attention; awkward; balance; bar; bearing; beginner; best; better; bit; blood; body; bridle; bridoon; broad; canter; case; cavalière; centre; certain; change; chapter; clear; close; colt; comfort; control; costume; cross; crutch; difficult; direction; ease; easy; effort; elastic; elbow; equal; essential; exercise; extent; eye; face; fact; fall; far; fashion; feel; feet; fence; field; figure; fine; finger; firm; fit; fitting; flat; following; foot; fore; form; forward; free; gallop; general; girls; girth; good; grace; great; grip; ground; habit; half; hand; hard; head; heel; high; hold; horse; hunting; illustration; inches; inside; knee; ladies; lady; large; lean; leaping; leather; left; left hand; leg; legs; length; lessons; like; line; little; long; loose; low; man; material; matter; means; messrs; mind; motion; mount; mouth; movements; near; necessary; neck; new; opinion; order; pace; perfect; play; point; pommel; pony; position; possible; power; practice; pressure; proper; pull; quiet; rein; rider; riding; right; right hand; right leg; rise; room; run; saddle; safety; said; seat; second; set; short; shoulder; silk; skin; skirt; slight; soft; speed; spring; spur; stand; steady; step; stirrup; stone; straight; strap; strength; stride; strong; system; tail; throw; time; touch; trainer; trot; turn; turning; upright; use; waist; walk; way; wear; weight; whip; wide; withers; women; word; work; wrong; years cache: 39610.txt plain text: 39610.txt item: #28 of 37 id: 40220 author: De Hurst, C. title: How Women Should Ride date: None words: 31059 flesch: 69 summary: With saddle horses, although not so important, it is an advantage to have them clipped, because a cold day is certain to make the rider go steadily to keep warm, and the horse, becoming overheated (if his coat is heavy), is in great danger of taking cold if permitted to stand for a moment in a draught. Otherwise she may get pocketed by the wire, which few horses here are trained to jump, and which, therefore, should not be ridden at. keywords: action; animal; attempt; attention; balance; best; better; body; bridle; canter; case; certain; chapter; child; clear; close; cloth; collected; common; control; correct; country; curb; cut; danger; desirable; difficult; drive; driving; effort; end; experience; fall; far; feet; fence; finger; firm; foot; force; form; forward; gait; going; good; great; ground; guard; habit; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; heel; high; hold; horse; hounds; illustration; importance; inside; instruction; jump; jumping; knee; knowledge; large; lead; left; leg; legs; likely; line; little; long; look; loose; low; manner; men; mind; moment; mount; mouth; muscles; near; necessary; neck; opportunity; outside; park; place; points; pommel; position; possible; power; practice; pull; quiet; reach; rear; rearing; reason; reins; requires; result; rider; riding; right; right hand; rise; road; run; saddle; safety; seat; second; sharp; short; shoulders; sidenote; skill; skirt; small; snaffle; sound; spur; stable; start; stirrup; stop; straight; strength; stride; strong; sure; temper; thing; time; trot; turn; use; view; waist; walk; wall; way; weight; whip; withers; woman; work; young cache: 40220.txt plain text: 40220.txt item: #29 of 37 id: 40684 author: Karr, Elizabeth title: The American Horsewoman date: None words: 73014 flesch: 68 summary: That the tub trick would prove equally effectual with other horses in teaching them to place themselves well on their haunches cannot be positively stated. Any horse is liable to do this when he has not been properly exercised, especially if he is with other horses, when a spirit of rivalry is aroused, and he sometimes becomes almost unmanageable from excitement. keywords: accident; accomplished; action; advance; advantage; aid; air; animal; appearance; apt; arab horse; arms; assistance; attempt; attention; author; awkward; backward; balance; bar; bearing; bend; best; better; bit; block; body; bred; bridle; canter; care; careful; cause; centre; certain; chain; change; chapter; circle; circling; close; cloth; collected; colt; command; confidence; contrary; control; correct; country; course; croup; curb; dangerous; day; degree; different; difficult; direction; dismount; distance; double; dress; ears; ease; easy; effect; effort; english; erect; essential; excellent; exercise; experience; face; fall; far; fatigue; fault; favorite; feet; fig; figure; finger; finished; firm; fit; flap; flying; following; foot; fore; form; forward; free; gait; gallop; gentleman; girths; good; graceful; great; greater; grooms; ground; guard; habit; hair; half; hand; hand gallop; hard; hat; haunches; head; heavy; high; hind; hold; hoof; horse; horseback; horsewoman; illustration; important; inches; inclination; inclined; index; instruction; kick; kind; knee; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; lady rider; large; leading; leads; lean; leap; leather; left; left foot; left hand; left leg; left rein; leg; legs; length; lessons; life; like; limbs; line; little; long; longer; look; loose; lower; management; manner; master; material; means; method; mind; motion; mount; mouth; movements; natural; nature; near; necessary; neck; obedience; object; occasion; opposite; order; original; pain; pass; perfect; person; piece; place; pleasure; point; pommel; position; possible; practice; present; pressure; proper; prove; pull; pupil; purpose; quick; rapid; ready; reason; regular; reins; required; rest; rider; riding; right; right hand; right leg; right rein; rise; road; run; saddle; safety; seat; second; secure; severe; short; shoulders; sides; similar; skirt; slight; small; snaffle; soft; spring; stable; stand; standing; steady; steed; step; stirrup; stop; stout; straight; strap; strong; study; style; sufficient; suitable; support; teacher; tension; thorough; throw; thumb; time; touch; training; treatment; trot; trotting; true; turn; turning; upper; upward; use; waist; walk; way; weight; whip; width; woman; work; young cache: 40684.txt plain text: 40684.txt item: #30 of 37 id: 45117 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in New England; or, An Exciting Quest in the Maine Wilderness date: None words: 49270 flesch: 93 summary: Chancing to catch the eyes of Tad Butler, he saw that Tad was of the same opinion. Observing Tad, Mr. Bruin lurched toward the boy. keywords: able; afraid; afternoon; air; animal; antlers; attention; bad; bark; bear; bed; bees; best; better; big; boy; boys; breakfast; brown; browse; bull; business; butler; cale; camp; campfire; care; case; chapter; charlie; chunky; close; coffee; companions; country; course; cut; day; days; dead; direction; dollars; eat; end; eyes; face; fact; fat; fat boy; feet; fellow; fine; fire; fish; folks; following; food; foot; forest; fun; game; going; good; great; ground; guide; gun; half; hand; hard; head; help; hold; home; horse; hour; hurry; idea; indian; jail; jed; job; john; journey; justice; keen; kind; knife; lake; later; lay; left; life; like; little; long; look; lost; maine; making; man; master; mean; meat; mind; minutes; moment; money; moose; morning; mother; muttered; ned; need; new; nodded; nose; oil; old; open; party; perkins; piece; place; plenty; ponies; pony; present; professor; reach; ready; rector; rest; return; rider; rifle; right; rope; run; saw; set; shore; shot; sir; small; smoke; sort; squire; stacy; stacy brown; stand; start; steak; sticks; stop; story; stuff; supper; sure; tad; tad butler; talk; talking; tent; thing; thought; time; town; trail; tree; trip; trouble; turning; use; vaughn; village; voice; walk; walter; want; warden; way; whitman; wish; woodcraft; woods; woodsman; work; yell; young; zepplin cache: 45117.txt plain text: 45117.txt item: #31 of 37 id: 45507 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana; or, Following the Game Trails in the Canebrake date: None words: 49584 flesch: 93 summary: Tad Butler Faced the Pack.] With the bush-knife in his left hand now, revolver in the right, the boy slashed and shot alternately. CHAPTER V MAROONED IN A SWAMP Hey, Tad! Yes, what is it? asked Tad Butler, wide awake in an instant in response to Stacy's quiet call. keywords: able; afraid; air; alligator; animal; answer; away; bayou; bear; best; better; big; bill; black; blood; blow; body; boy; boys; breakfast; brown; bush; bushes; butler; camp; canebrake; carcass; case; chapter; chunky; close; clowney; colored; companions; country; course; cut; cypress; day; dead; deer; direction; distance; doe; dogs; end; eyes; face; fallen; far; fast; fat; fat boy; feet; fellow; fine; fire; following; foot; forest; fresh; game; going; good; great; grin; ground; guide; gun; half; hand; head; heavy; help; hold; home; horn; horse; hounds; hour; hunting; hurt; ichabod; instant; knees; knife; lad; lake; lay; leave; left; life; like; lilly; line; little; long; look; mad; major; man; master; miles; millicent; mind; minutes; miss; moment; morning; mount; near; ned; need; new; open; opportunity; outfit; owls; pack; party; pete; place; point; pony; pool; possible; prisoner; professor; rain; ready; rector; rest; revolver; rider; rider boy; riding; rifle; right; rope; run; saddle; sah; shack; shooting; shot; sign; sir; sleep; sort; sound; spot; stacy; stacy brown; stand; stop; straight; stranger; sure; swamp; tad; tad butler; talk; tent; thing; thought; time; trail; tree; trouble; use; voice; watch; water; way; weapon; white; wild; wolves; wood; work; yes; young; zepplin cache: 45507.txt plain text: 45507.txt item: #32 of 37 id: 46696 author: Bourgelat, Claude title: A New System of Horsemanship date: None words: 39834 flesch: 52 summary: Now, that these Parts may be kept without Motion, they ought to have a certain Hold and Center, if I may so say, to rest upon, which no Motion that the Horse can make, can disturb or loosen; this Point or Center is the Basis of the Hold which the Horseman has upon his Horse, and is what is called the _Seat_. They should then be kept near the Sides of the Horse, and in a Line with the Man's Body; for being near the Part of the Horse's Body where his Feeling is most delicate, they are ready to do their Office in the Instant they are wanted. keywords: able; action; advance; aids; air; airs; apuy; backward; bend; body; bridle; caprioles; care; case; certain; change; chap; close; croupe; curvets; degrees; different; ease; effect; endeavour; equal; feeling; feet; firm; foot; fore; gallop; good; great; ground; hand; haunches; head; heavy; high; hind; hinder; hocks; hold; horse; horseman; inner; justness; leap; left; legs; lesson; limbs; line; little; makes; making; manage; manner; means; method; motions; mouth; natural; nature; necessary; neck; order; outward; parts; passage; pesades; pillars; place; principles; proportion; quick; rein; rider; right; rise; saddle; short; shoulders; stop; strait; strength; sufficient; supple; support; switch; temper; terre; time; trot; true; turn; use; vigour; volte; walk; want; work; working cache: 46696.txt plain text: 46696.txt item: #33 of 37 id: 46920 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge; or, A Lucky Find in the Carolina Mountains date: None words: 48372 flesch: 91 summary: Walter Perkins and Tad Butler were crawling out from under their collapsed tent, Walter frightened, Tad laughing. Tad heard Stillman say, All right, whereupon the two men set off toward their own cabin, with Tad Butler and Ned Rector following at a safe distance to the rear. keywords: able; abs; air; animal; bad; bald; batts; best; better; billy; biscuit; black; blue; boys; breakfast; brown; business; butler; bye; cabin; camp; campfire; care; cat; chapter; chops; chunky; close; cold; collie; companions; continued; corners; course; creek; crowd; day; direction; distance; dog; door; dream; dry; dunkan; end; excellent; eyed; eyes; face; fact; fall; far; fat; fat boy; feet; fellow; find; fine; finished; fire; flood; following; foot; forward; fun; gentlemen; ghost; glad; gold; good; government; great; griffin; grin; ground; guess; guide; gun; half; hand; hard; head; help; high; horse; hour; hunt; interrupted; jeered; jim; kind; lad; lads; late; left; like; little; long; look; making; man; matter; mean; men; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mountaineer; mountains; muttered; near; ned; new; officer; open; opinion; outfit; party; pass; pay; perkins; person; piece; place; ponies; pony; pony rider; prisoner; professor; professor zepplin; quick; rat; ready; real; rear; reason; rector; rest; revolver; rider; rider boys; ridge; rifle; right; roar; rock; rodman; rope; run; saddle; sah; scene; second; shot; sleep; smart; smoky; sort; sound; stacy; stillman; store; stream; supper; sure; tad; tad butler; talk; tent; thing; thought; tie; time; tonight; trail; tree; trouble; turn; use; veal; voice; wait; walk; water; way; weapon; wet; wide; work; writing; yassir; yell; young; zepplin cache: 46920.txt plain text: 46920.txt item: #34 of 37 id: 4991 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico; Or, The End of the Silver Trail date: None words: 48319 flesch: 91 summary: Stacy had fairly overwhelmed Tad Butler with the importance of his discovery; but, thus far, Tad had not the least idea what it was all about. If there's any way of escape you may depend upon it that Master Tad has discovered that way, answered the Professor. keywords: afraid; afternoon; air; animal; arms; better; blow; body; boys; break; broncho; brown; bunch; burned; burro; bushes; busy; butler; camp; care; case; cave; chapter; chunky; circle; claus; clothes; companion; course; dance; dark; day; desert; direction; distance; divining; dollars; door; dry; dust; early; edge; end; enemy; evening; eyes; face; far; fat; feet; fellow; find; fire; floor; foothills; good; grass; great; ground; guide; gun; half; hand; head; help; high; hold; hole; home; hour; hurry; idea; indian; instant; journey; juan; kringle; kris; lads; lasar; late; laugh; lay; lazy; left; lie; life; like; little; long; look; looking; man; marquand; matter; meal; mean; men; mexican; mind; minutes; moment; moon; morning; mountain; muttered; neck; ned; need; new; old; open; opening; outfit; outside; party; place; plain; point; ponies; pony; professor; quick; range; ready; rear; rector; red; redskins; rest; rider; riding; rifle; right; rock; rod; room; rope; run; saddle; sage; santa; savage; second; series; señor; shooting; shot; shoulders; shrill; sleep; smoke; sound; speed; spot; spurs; stacy; start; steps; stock; straight; sudden; supper; sure; table; tad; tad butler; tent; thing; thought; tilting; time; trail; treasure; tree; trip; trouble; try; turn; use; voice; wait; walk; walter; watch; way; weapon; week; wish; wonder; work; years; yell; young; zepplin cache: 4991.txt plain text: 4991.txt item: #35 of 37 id: 6067 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost Claim date: None words: 50978 flesch: 89 summary: One of the two they knew Tad had gone away with, so, after a council, it was decided to take the animals they had captured and make an effort to find Tad Butler. 'Course Tad can ride. keywords: able; afraid; afternoon; air; animal; arms; arrows; away; bad; banker; bear; beast; bed; ben; better; black; bob; body; boys; brown; bushes; business; butler; camp; care; careful; case; cat; cave; chapter; cheek; chunky; claim; clear; cliff; close; club; coming; companions; cougar; country; course; day; dead; deep; direction; distance; dogs; dollars; edge; end; excitement; eyes; face; far; fast; father; feet; fellow; find; fire; following; foot; friend; game; ginger; going; gold; good; great; ground; growled; guess; guide; guns; half; hand; hard; hat; head; help; high; hold; home; horse; hounds; hour; hunting; idea; instant; jimmie; jinny; jose; keen; lad; langdon; large; late; lay; leave; left; life; lige; like; line; little; long; look; lost; man; mare; master; meal; mean; mind; minutes; moment; money; morning; mother; mountain; mountaineer; mrs; mustard; near; neck; ned; need; new; old; open; pack; party; perkins; piece; place; pocket; point; ponies; pony; possible; president; professor; purpose; pussy; quick; rage; ready; real; rector; rest; return; riders; riding; rifle; right; rock; rope; rough; run; saddle; school; second; set; sharp; shooting; shot; sir; sleep; smile; sombrero; sort; sound; stacy; standing; start; stop; store; sudden; supper; sure; surprise; tackers; tad; tad butler; tell; tent; texas; thing; thomas; thought; time; torch; torches; trail; tree; trip; trouble; unable; uncle; use; village; voice; walter; want; way; wild; words; work; young; zepplin cache: 6067.txt plain text: 6067.txt item: #36 of 37 id: 6068 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in Montana; Or, The Mystery of the Old Custer Trail date: None words: 51007 flesch: 92 summary: It takes more than a bath in a cold creek to lay us up, eh, Tad? I hope so, answered Tad Butler, who had rubbed himself until his body glowed. Of course we shall, answered Tad brightening. keywords: able; afraid; afternoon; air; animal; attention; bad; bank; banker; bear; best; better; big; billy; bluff; bob; body; boy; boys; breakfast; broncho; brown; butler; camp; case; cattle; chance; chapter; chief; chunky; close; companions; cook; course; cowboys; cowmen; darkness; day; direction; distance; drive; ears; effort; end; evening; eye; eyes; face; fall; fat; fear; feet; fellow; find; fire; flock; foothills; foreman; forsythe; forward; giving; goat; good; great; ground; guide; gun; guns; half; hand; head; hear; help; herd; hicks; high; hold; hope; hurry; indians; instant; jinny; kid; kind; know; lad; lads; lariat; larue; late; laughter; leader; left; legs; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lost; luke; man; master; meal; mean; men; miles; mind; minute; moment; morning; mountains; muttered; mutton; near; neck; ned; need; new; old; open; outfit; party; phil; philip; pink; place; plan; point; ponies; pony; position; professor; question; quick; ranch; rancher; range; ready; rector; reins; rest; ride; riding; right; river; rock; rope; run; saddle; second; set; sheep; sheepmen; shooting; shot; simms; sound; stacy; start; stop; store; straight; stream; sudden; sun; sure; tad; tad butler; tent; think; thought; time; trail; tree; trip; trouble; turn; unable; use; voice; walter; want; way; wonder; work; young; zepplin cache: 6068.txt plain text: 6068.txt item: #37 of 37 id: 6069 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks; Or, The Secret of Ruby Mountain date: None words: 48338 flesch: 91 summary: Slowly, foot by foot Tad hauled the dead weight up. Master Tad is down in the canyon and from the present outlook he is liable to remain there for some time. keywords: able; afraid; air; answer; assistant; attention; bad; best; better; boys; breakfast; brown; butler; camp; car; care; careful; chamber; chance; chapter; chunky; clear; cliff; climb; close; coffee; companions; contest; cook; course; cowboy; cravath; cup; cut; dark; day; distance; doubt; eagle; edge; effort; engineer; eye; eyes; face; fall; fat; feet; fellow; find; fire; food; foreman; fresh; girl; good; gorge; great; ground; guess; guide; half; hand; head; help; hold; hope; hour; hungry; hurry; hurt; idea; indian; jessup; lad; lads; large; laughter; leave; left; like; little; long; look; man; master; mean; men; mind; miner; mining; minutes; moment; morning; mountain; mules; munson; muttered; near; neck; ned; need; outfit; ozark; pack; party; perkins; phipps; place; point; ponies; pony; position; possible; professor; question; quick; race; range; reach; ready; rector; red; rest; return; rider; rifle; right; rock; rope; ruby; run; saddle; second; sharp; shawnee; short; shoulders; silence; sir; sleep; smoke; sound; stacy; start; stop; stuff; sudden; superintendent; supper; sure; tad; tad butler; thing; thought; time; tom; track; trail; tree; trouble; use; voice; walter; want; way; word; work; young; zepplin cache: 6069.txt plain text: 6069.txt