108 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



IV. 



CONTINUATION OF SUPPLING S. 



The hind-parts. In order to guide the 

 horse, the rider acts directly on two of his 

 parts ; the fore-parts and the hind-parts. 

 To effect this he employs two motive pow 

 ers : the legs, which give the impulse by 

 the croup; and the hand, which directs and 

 modifies this impulse by the head and neck. 

 A perfect harmony of forces ought then to 

 exist always between these two motive 

 powers ; but the same harmony is equally 

 necessary between the parts of the animal 

 which they are intended particularly to im 

 press. Our labor to render the head and 

 neck flexible, light, and obedient to the 

 touch of the hand, would be vain, its results 

 incomplete, and the equilibrium of the whole 



