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to the near fore as he would naturally do, were he not under 

 artificial compunction. Or, if he met in his onward course 

 a dangerous inequality in the ground, he would, instead of 

 going off to one side or the other, go into or on top of it 

 with the chance of injuring himself and his rider, unless his 



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FIG. 13. Bolshaya Morskaya Street. 



[M. H. H. 



fear of an accident was greater than his sense of discipline. 

 It is evident that a horse which is habitually forced to depend 

 solely on his rider for guidance, will in time lose to a great 

 extent his instinct of self-preservation when being ridden, 

 and will consequently become an unsafe conveyance over 

 bad ground or across country. In fact, the less developed 



