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upon the mouth ; lean slightly forward in the saddle, press 

 the legs against the horse's sides, and use the peculiar click 

 of the tongue, which serves as an encouragement to the 

 horse on all occasions. If properly broken, he will now 

 fall at once into a trot ; but if he breaks into a canter or 

 Scallop, he must be checked, and restrained into a walk or 

 a very slow trot called a "jog-trot." In some cases a horse 

 can canter as slow as he walks and here there is often 

 great difficulty in making him trot, for no restraint short 

 of a total halt will prevent the canter. In such cases, lay- 

 ing hold of an ear will often succeed, by making the an- 

 imal drop his head, which movement interferes with the 

 canter, and generally leads to a trot. Rising in the stirrups 

 with the trot is generally practised in civil life, as being 

 far less fatiguing to both horse and rider, but in the mil- 

 itary schools the opposite style is inculcated, because 

 among a troop of horse it has a very bad effect when a 

 number of men are bobbing up and down, out of all time ; 

 if it were possible for all to rise together, perhaps the offence 

 against military precision might be pardoned; but as 

 horses will not all step together, so the men cannot all rise 

 at the same moment, and the consequence is that they are 

 doomed to bump upon the sheep-skins in a very tiresome 

 manner, fatiguing alike to man and horse. The civilian's 

 moeie is as follows: — At the precise moment when the 

 hind and fore-legs are making their effort to throw the 

 horse forward in progression, the body of the rider is 

 thrown forcibly into the air, in some horses to so great an 

 extent as to make a young rider feel as if he never 

 should come down again. After reaching the utmost 

 height, however, the body falls, and reaches the saddle 

 just in time to catch the next effort and so on as long 



