Hints on the Use of the Saddle Horse and Shot Gun in India

Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Owned by a member of the Royal Bombay Yacht Club. Boards lightly soiled, front hinges weakening. 1914 Hard Cover. iv, 232 pp. Written for beginners. Includes: Part I. Hints on the Use of the Saddle Horse: Introductory - The Choice of a Horse - To Find the Age of a Horse - The Care of the Horse - Lameness and Sickness - Grooming - Riding - "Making" a Young Horse - "Making a Young Horse (Continued) - A Riding School Course - Jumping - Long Marches - Bitting - Saddling and Saddlery - Shoeing - The Halter Twitch - Vices - Picketing Horses - Tent-pegging - A Man and Some Horses - My First Pig; Part II. Hints on the Use of the Shot Gun: Guns for India - Aiming - Snipe - Where to Find Snipe - Equipment and Final Hints about Snipe - Kalij Pheasants and Jungle Fowl - Partridge and Quails - Wild Fowl - The Florican and Likh Florican - Hares - Various - Snipe Shooting on Dry Land - My First Jungle Fowl - Our Local Pharmacopaei - One Way of Doing It - A Day in the Pujah Holidays.