378 RIDING 



each lesson at a walk, care being taken that the horse is not pulled 

 round by the feeling of the inward rein only, but supported by 

 the outward rein as well, and that both legs are kept closed, 

 the outward the stronger. In speaking of outward or inward 

 leg or rein, the pupil should be made to understand that the 

 hand to which he turns is the inward hand. 



LESSON VIII 



The same as before, still working to get the rider and horse 

 in unison with each other. As the pupil gets on, and finds 

 himself able to sit on the horse's back without much trouble 

 to himself, he must not be allowed to take it too easy, but be 

 kept more up to his work as he gets firmer and stronger in his 

 seat. A little more may be asked of him each lesson, but still 

 the instructor must be careful not to ask so much as to make 

 him over-tired. He should now be able to keep his position 

 fairly well at a steady trot, and the feet properly placed in the 

 stirrups. The pace should now and again be increased at a 

 trot and slackened again, and a little more be asked from him 

 when riding without stirrups. He should also be taught to 

 'rein back,' it being explained to him that in doing so he is not 

 to keep a dead pull on his horse's mouth and allow him to run 

 oack, but that he is to take a step to the rear at a time, by 

 an alternate feeling of the reins and closing of the legs, the 

 horse halting at each step ; also, that the reins are to be felt 

 and the legs closed evenly, so that he reins back on a straight 

 line. 



LESSON IX 



It would be advisable that by the time this lesson is reached 

 the horse should be changed. It is not at all desirable that 

 the pupil should be put on to a rough horse ; on the contrary, 

 the new mount should be as quiet and easy as the one he has 

 been on all along, and the pupil should be assured of this ; but 

 as no two horses go exactly alike, it is as well that he should feel 



