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struggling with him. If he gallop off with 

 you, without jour being able to modify or 

 direct with certainty his course, it proves 

 that, although subject to a certain extent to 

 your power, in thus consenting to carry you 

 about, he nevertheless uses his instinctive 

 forces. In this case, there is a perpetual 

 fight going on between you and him, the 

 chances of which depend on the tempera 

 ment and caprice of the animal upon the 

 good or bad state of his digestion. Changes 

 of foot, in such a state, can only be obtained 

 by inclining the horse very much to one 

 side, which makes the movement both diffi 

 cult and ungraceful. -* 

 If, on the contrary, the animal is made 

 submissive to a degree that he cannot con 

 tract any one of his parts without the inter 

 vention and aid of the rider, the latter can 

 direct at his pleasure the whole of his mov- 



