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RIDING 



that is often their great fault also), but from being too stiff and 

 not accompanying the movement of the horse. No such riders 

 can ever be said to have good hands. The first, who could ride 

 the easy horse not well trained, who had been taught to ride as 

 far as teaching could benefit him, and who understood some- 

 thing of horsemanship (although he had not been able to get 

 a good seat), would not be able to sit on the well-trained horse 

 without sometimes having to assist himself by the reins, which 



Depend more or less on the horse's mouth. 



would most likely make the animal fretful and shy of his bit ; 

 and although the rider himself would know quite well that it 

 was his own fault, yet from want of strength in the seat he could 

 not help doing what he knew to be wrong. The second, or 

 nervous man, would very likely be all right on his own horse to 

 which he had got accustomed, but if he got on another one 

 that was at all shy, or troubled with the same complaint as him- 

 self, nervousness, supposing that a bird flew out of the hedge, 



