82 An Excellent Manual. 



neck well arched, but not too long." " The head 

 should be carried in its right place, the neck 

 gracefully arched. From the walk he should be 

 able to bound into any pace, in perfectly bal- 

 anced action, that the rider may require." And 

 yet such a horse, though esteemed a prize in 

 Rotten Row, would be all but tabooed on the 

 streets of Boston, because he is not the type of a 

 fine performer to hounds. 



XXIV. 



There are so many manuals of the equestrian 

 art from which any aspiring and patient student 

 of equitation may derive the information requisite 

 to become an expert horseman, that beyond a few 

 hints for the benefit of those who, like you, Tom, 

 know nothing and want to learn a little about the 

 niceties of horseback work, it would be pre- 

 sumptuous to go. If a man desires to learn how 

 to train a horse thoroughly, he must go back to 

 Baucher, or to some of Baucher's pupils. All 

 the larger works which cover training contain the 

 elements of the Baucher system. The recent 

 work of Colonel E. L. Anderson, late of General 

 George H. Thomas' staff, written in England and 

 published by David Douglas of Edinburgh, is a 

 most excellent work. 



I have found as a rule that abstruse written ex- 

 planations are very difficult to understand. In a 



