56 SYSTEM FOE TKAINING CAVALKY H0ESE3. 



into play at tlie same time ; and hy degrees I exact 

 obedience from tliem collectively. 



13. Explain how this is do7ie. 



I keep the horse at a walk on the straight line, his 

 head reined in, and approaching the spnr close to his 

 sides, tonch him lightly at first. This gives the horse 

 a forward impnlse, which I quietly control by keeping 

 my hand steady, while the horse's hind-legs, which 

 he brought nnder him to spring forward, are suddenly 

 kept there by the opposition of my hand. I then 

 make much of him and caress him, ease my hand, 

 letting him continue to walk on quietly, till, by re- 

 peating this lesson, at the slightest pressure of my 

 legs he brings his haunches under him, and arches 

 his neck, and is ready to spring forward, to rein back, 

 or turn to either hand. 



13. Bxit suppose^ ichen you stick the spurs into him,, 

 he throws up his hcad^ and dashes off loith you f 



Tliis could not happen to me, because I should never 

 communicate an impulse with the leg which I could 

 not control with the hand. I begin by touching his 

 sides so lightly, and taking it so coolly, neither moving 

 hand nor leg, that the horse is never alarmed, thinks 

 nothing of it at first, and thus I go on, gradually in- 

 creasing the dose, till he takes as much as is " neces- 

 sary^'''' and " cannot help himself ^ 



14. When do you know that the horse has taken as 

 much as is " necessary f 



"When I feel the horse so buoyant and light under 



