46 IN THE BIDING-SCHOOL. 



you would not allow your horse to enter upon 

 the gait without permission, but would bring 

 him back to the trot by slightly pulling first the 

 left rein and then the right, a movement which 

 is called sawing the mouth. The poor creature 

 is really not in fault. He heard the cluck given 

 by that complacent-looking man, trotting slowly 

 about, and not knowing how to use his reins 

 and knees in order to go faster, and he said to 

 himself : " She is tired of trotting and wants a 

 rest ; so do I," and away he went. If you had 

 been trying to rise, you might have been thrown, 

 for the greatest danger that you will encounter 

 in the school comes from rising while the horse 

 is at a canter. The cadence of the motion is 

 triple, instead of in common time like that of 

 the trot, and you will soon distinguish the dif- 

 ference, but eschew cantering at first. If you 

 once become addicted to it, you will never learn 

 to trot, or even to walk well. 



Having had your little warning against 

 clucking, perhaps you will now sympathize 

 with the indignant Englishwoman who, having 

 been almost unseated by a similar mischance, 

 responded, when the clucking cause thereof 



