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only notice to be taken is to reassure him by caressing him, if 

 you see that he expects chastisement from previous brutal 

 treatment. I will add that you should also habitually prevent 

 your horse out- walking, or lagging behind, his companions. 

 He is either very unsociable, or a bad horseman, who does 

 not keep abreast of his companions. Besides, horses being 

 gregarious, are apt to follow one another. This should not 

 be. Your horse should be in perpetual obedience to the indi- 

 cations that your hands and legs give him, and to nothing 

 else. These indications should not only decide the pace 

 which he is to take, but deal out to him the rate at which 

 each pace is to be executed, and also determine his carriage 

 during the performance of it, that is, the degree in which he 

 is to collect himself, or the degree of liberty which is to be 

 allowed him. 



The indications of the hands are of two sorts — guiding and 

 retaining. Those of the legs and whip are also of two sorts — 

 guiding and urging. Suppose a horse standing still, with full 



