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close to it make three quarters of a turn to the 

 left and you will find yourself on the left of the 

 school, and in a position to practise keeping 

 your horse to the right. Try it, beginning 

 about two thirds of the way down the long side 

 of the school. Now to get back to the right 

 hand, you may turn to the left across the school, 

 and turn to the left again. 



" There is a better way of doing it, but that 

 is enough for to-day. Walk now. Do you see 

 how much better your horse carries himself, and 

 how much better you carry your hands, after 

 those little exercises ? Now you must try and 

 imagine yourself doing them over and over 

 again, to accustom your mind to them, just as 

 when learning to play scales and five-finger ex- 

 ercises you used to think them out while walk- 

 ing. Shall you not need pictures and diagrams 

 to assist you ? Not if you have as much imagi- 

 nation as any horsewoman should have. Not 

 if you have enough imagination to manage a 

 cow, much more to enter into the feelings of 

 a good horse. Pictures are invaluable to the 

 stupid ; they benumb and enervate the clever, 

 and transform them into apish imitators, instead 



