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if I do not know the sign which expresses that 

 action ? 



It is self-evident, therefore, that a horseman must 

 possess a thorough knowledge of all the means he 

 should employ to indicate his will to his horse, 

 and remember to employ them in the manner 

 the horse has been taught to understand them. 

 Without this there can be no accord between the 

 will of the rider and the obedience of his horse, 

 and a horseman will ride with all the disadvan- 

 tage or difficulty that a person would experience 

 who attempted to play a difficult piece of music 

 before he had learned his gamut. To attempt to 

 govern the actions of a horse by signs or motions 

 of the hand which he has not been taught to 

 understand, is much the same as ordering a 

 person to do some act in a language he does not 

 understand or speak. 



In these pages, the author's aim has been to 

 .show that a perfect knowledge of horsemanship is 

 absolutely necessary to the' enjoyment to be 

 derived from the exercise of ridino^. He wishes 



