198 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



Fifth lesson. Fifteen days of work. 

 These last fifteen days will be occupied in 

 assuring the perfect execution of all the 

 preceding work, and in perfecting the pace 

 of the gallop, until we can easily execute 

 changes of direction, changes of feet at 

 every step, and passaging. We may then 

 exercise the horse at leaping the bar, and at 

 the piaffer. Thus in two months, and upon 

 any horse, we will have accomplished a 

 work that formerly required years, and 

 then often gave incomplete results. And I 

 repeat, however insufficient so short a space 

 of time may appear, it will produce the 

 effect I promise, if you follow exactly all 

 my directions. I have demonstrated this 

 upon a hundred different occasions, and 

 many of my pupils are able to prove it as 

 well as myself. 



In establishing the above order of work, be 

 it well understood, that I base my directions 



