180 MODERN FARRIEE. 



a long string, coming first from the ring on the pad, 

 and from thence through the eye of the snaffle ; and 

 also, if the horse's head is low, through the ring on 

 the head-stall, and from thence through the ring on 

 the pad^ into the hand of the persons on foot, who 

 must humour it, yielding and shortening it occa- 

 sionally, wdiich will prevent the horse from leaning, 

 and will render him light. The long string, thus 

 used, will do very well alone without the strap, 

 when the horse is accustomed to bend, and to trot' 

 determined round the person who stands in the 

 centre, and holds the long string. 



After horses have been accustomed to be bent 

 with a strap at the longe, they will veiy soon huge 

 themselves, as it were; that is to say, that when 

 bent with the strap they will go very well without 

 any longe; and indeed horses may be brought, with 

 patience and gentleness, to work very well so, on 

 almost all lessons in hand. 



ISJ^ext begin the epaide en dedans ; and after that, 

 the head to the wall, the croupe to the wall, back- 

 ing, kc. on all figures by degrees, 



^lost horses generally go the head to the wall 

 more cordially at first than they do the croupe to the 

 wall. Working in the hand is, in fact, a kind of 

 driving : two persons on foot should be employed ; 

 one indeed may do, if he is a handy person, but two 

 are much better at first. One of these should hold 

 a long string, and in some lessons two, and a cham- 

 briere standing at some distance from the horse; 

 the other persons stands near the horse, holding the 

 mns of the snaffle, and a hand whip, to keep the 

 horse off from him if necessary. Girt on a pad with 

 a crupper to it on the horse. The pad should have 

 a large ring in the centre vipon the top of it, and 

 about four inches lower down on each side, a smaller 

 one. 



On the top of the pad, a little forwarder than the 

 jgreat ring, there must be a small strap and buckle. 



