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and mingle courbettes, ballotades, and even cabrioles 

 with it, combinations which La Broue, the Duke of 

 Newcastle, De la Gueriniere, or Pellier would scarcely 

 dream of. This a horse will do in the gaiety of his 

 heart, and without requiring any suppling ; take the 

 same horse into the school, follow him with the whip, 

 and try to make him do it, he will think you a most 

 unreasonable person ; he*will by 'no means be able to 

 discover your meaning, and will, if you press him, finish 

 by being exceedingly sulky. Mount him, and try to 

 indicate your wishes to him through the medium of 

 your hands, legs, and whip, or if you prefer the terms, 

 to give him their aid and support. I will venture to 

 say that you will be nearer two years than one, before 

 you can get him to do what he has not only done 

 but done for his own delight. In the mean time, if 

 during his two years of suppling you have never given 

 him a false indication or ever forced him, he will be 

 no more stiff than when he first began to be suppled. 

 But if, as a million riders out of a million and one would 



