Proper Result of Schooling. 83 



recent excellent book on riding-school training 

 (not School-riding mind you), though I know per- 

 fectly well what the riding-school volte and demi- 

 volte are, as well as the School-volte and demi- 

 volte, simple and reversed, I have read certain 

 paragraphs dozens of times, without being able to 

 make the words mean what the movement really 

 is. Colonel Anderson's book is very clear, though 

 it goes fully into the refinements of the art, ex- 

 cept the quasi-circus tricks and airs, and from it, 

 with time and patience, a man can make himself 

 an accomplished rider and his steed equal to any 

 work — outside the sawdust ring. 



But you, Tom, do not aspire to go so far in the 

 training of Penelope. 



XXV. 



You must not suppose that a man who teaches 

 his horse all the airs of the Haute Ecole con- 

 stantly uses them, any more than an eminent di- 

 vine is always in the act of preaching, or 2i prima 

 donna assoluta is at all times warbling or prac- 

 ticing chromatic scales, when each ought to be 

 engaged in the necessary but prosaic details of 

 life. The best results of School training lie in 

 the ability of the horse and rider to do plain and 

 simple work in the best manner. Because a 

 horse can traverse or perform the Spanish trot, 

 his rider need not necessarily make him traverse 



