64 MECHANICAL AID OF THE RIDER. [CHAP. iv. 



obedience to the indications which your hands and legs 

 give him, and to nothing else. These indications should 

 not only decide the pace which he-is to take, but deal out 

 to him the rate at which each pace is to be executed, 

 and also determine his carriage during the performance 

 of it ; that is, the degree in which he is to collect himself, 

 or the degree of liberty which is to be allowed him. 



