ON HORSEMANSHIP. 2^1 



Laftly, when the time of difmiffing him. comes, 

 and the man is to alight, let him take heed not to do 

 it among other horfes, nor among the fpeiflators, but 

 in the place in which he has been worked ; in that 

 very fpot let him receive the reward of eafe and 

 repofe. 



CHAP. VIII. 



THERE being frequent occafions to ride an horfe 

 up and down lleep grounds, and on the fides of 

 them ; as alfo, to leap over ditches, and upon high 

 places, and down from them ; it is neceflary that all. 

 thefe things fhould be learnt and pradliifed both by 

 man and horfe ; who may thus become a mutual pre- 

 fervation, each to the other, and rendered thereby more 

 ufeful to the public. 



If here we ftiould be accufed of unneceflary repeti* 

 tion, becaufe we have made mention of thefe qualities 

 already, we deny the charge : for then we recommend- 

 ed the examination of the horfe, as to thefe particu- 

 lars, before he was bought ; whereas now we affirm, 

 that a man fhould teach them the horfe, which is al- 

 ready his own ; and we will Ihew him how it ought 

 to be done. The right way then for one to proceed 

 who has a raw horfe, and quite ignorant of leaping, is 

 to hold him loofely by the rein, and get over the ditch 

 firll himfelf J and thus by leading the horfe, endeavour 



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