84 Uses of Schooling. 



or passage past the window of his inamorata, 

 while he himself salutes her with the air of a 

 grandee of Aragon. For this would no doubt 

 be bad style for a modern horseman in front of a 

 Beacon Street mansion ; though truly it might 

 be eminently proper, as well as an interesting dis- 

 play of horsemanship, for the same rider to trav- 

 erse past his commanding general while saluting 

 at a review on Boston Common. Nor because a 

 horse can perform the reversed pirouette with 

 perfect exactness will a School-rider stop in the 

 middle of a park road and parade the accomplish- 

 ment. But this same reversed pirouette is for 

 all that the foundation of everything that a well- 

 trained horse should be able to do, and if he 

 knows it, he is ready to make use of it at all 

 times for the greater ease, safety, and pleasure of 

 his master. 



You may ask of what use it can ever be. Sup- 

 pose you were riding with a lady, on her left, — 

 which is the safe and proper, if not the fashionable 

 side, — and her saddle should begin to turn, say 

 toward you, as it is most apt to do. If your horse 

 minds the indication of your leg, you can keep 

 him so close to your companion's as to afford her 

 suitable assistance, even to the extent of bodily 

 lifting her clear of her saddle. If your horse is 

 only half trained, you cannot, perhaps, bring him 

 to the position where you want him in season to 



