ON HORSEMANSHIP. 26^ 



fland in fiicli a poilure as to difplay his belly to thofe 

 who are oppofite to him. 



There are fome who teach horfcs to rife, by (Irik- 

 ing the fetlocks with a ftick; others order a man, 

 who attends for that purpofe, to hit them upon the 

 upper part of the legs * We, however, look upon it 

 that the beft way of teaching them is to follow our 

 fore-mentioned rule : that whenever they anfwer the 

 horfcman's wiflies, and obey him chearfuUy, they 

 fliould inflanily be rewarded by a cefTation from toil ; 

 for what they do by conftraint (as Simon fays alfo) they 

 do without underftanding, and with no more grace or 

 pleafure than an adlor would perform his part upon 

 the ftage, if he was whipped and beat all the time- 

 The man and the horfe would certainly make but very 

 difagreeable figures. The only true method is, to, 

 inftrudt an horfe in his bufinefs by figns and Aids, and 

 to engage him to perform it with good-will and alacri- 

 ty. If, therefore, when he has been worked fo feriouf- 

 ly, as to fweat and be fomewhat fatigued, and you per- 

 ceive that he rifes up, and complies with all that you 

 demand of hun, you inftantly get off, and difmifs him, 

 there is no queflion but he will joyfully accept every 

 occafion of repeating the fame, whenever you fhall re- 

 quire it of him. 



* This method ftands juftified by the praftice of modern horfe- 

 men. 



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