THE

HANDY HORSE-BOOK

OR
༢

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN DRIVING, RIDING.

AND THE GENERAL CARE AND

MANAGEMENT OF HORSES

BY

A CAVALRY OFFICER

(Magenta)

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

With Engravings.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXVII

ΤΟ

MAJOR-GENERAL LORD GEORGE PAGET, C.B.

Inspector-General of Cabalry,

SON OF THE DISTINGUISHED HORSEMAN AND HERO WHO COM

MANDED THE CAVALRY AT WATERLOO, AND HIMSELF A LEADER

IN TRIBUTE TO HIS SOLDIERLY QUALITIES, AND TO HIS CON

SIDERATION FOR THE NOBLE ANIMAL WHICH HAS CARRIED

THE BRITISH CAVALRY THROUGH SO MANY DANGERS TO SO

MANY TRIUMPHS,

BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBEDIENT SERVANT,

"MAGENTA."