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and you must lean to the right to rise straight ! 

 Take him into the corners so that he will move 

 on a straight line, and you can rise straight and 

 be as much at ease as if on the road. Whoa ! 

 Now, don't change your position, but look at 

 yourself ! You did not shorten your reins when 

 you began to trot, and, if your horse had stum- 

 bled, you could not have aided him to regain 

 his balance. Had you shortened them properly, 

 you could, by sitting down, using your leg and 

 whip lightly and turning your hands toward your 

 body, have brought him down to a walk without 

 hurling yourself forward against the pommel in 

 that fashion. Now, adjust yourself and your 

 reins, and start forward once more," and you 

 obey, and are beginning to flatter yourself that 

 your master does not know that your canter was 

 accidental, when he warns you against allowing 

 a horse to do anything unbidden. 



"You should have stopped him at once," he 

 says. " He will very likely try to repeat his 

 little manoeuvre in a few minutes. When he 

 does, check him instantly, not by your voice, 

 but as you have been directed. And now, have 

 you read Delsarte ? No ? If you have time, 



