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which can thus always be kept free from 

 blemish. 



9. Continued mobility or pawing, ivhile 

 stationary, of one of the horse s fore legs; 

 the horse, at the riders will, executing the 

 movement l&amp;gt;y which he, of his own accord, 

 often manifests his impatience. 



This movement will be obtained by the 

 same process that serves to keep the horse s 

 leg in the air. In the latter case, the rider s 

 legs must impress a continued support, in 

 order that the force which holds the horse s 

 leg raised keep up its effect; while, for the 

 movement now in question, we must renew 

 the action by a quantity of slight pressures, 

 in order to cause the motion of the leg held 

 up in the air. This extremity of the horse 

 will soon acquire a movement subordinate 

 to that of the rider s legs, and if the time be 

 well seized, it will seem, so to say, that we 



