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this must only be when peculiar circumstances 

 require it. 



By " touch " with the whip is meant a slight 

 intimation — not whipping — but if a horse does 

 not obey, then the touch with the whip must 

 be smart. 



No lady should venture on a horse that re- 

 quires whipping, or that is not perfectly and 

 securely educated for carrying a lady. 



Too much cannot be said concerning holding 

 and using the bridle, which is so much neg- 

 lected, and understood by so few; for it is 

 distressing to behold a lady on horseback in 

 the dangerous predicament of holding the rein 

 in a bundle or wisp, and as some do, in their 

 lap, or striving to place them between her 

 fingers in some mystical way, without knowing 

 the regular manner, which is at once so sim- 

 ple, so secure, and so graceful. 



The anxiety of the author for the perfection 

 of scholars in the science, will, he hopes, be 

 fully appreciated ; and that they will be per- 

 manently benefited and secured in its exercise, 

 by his having in every stage of his instructions 



