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teach him to go side ways, to pass his legs 

 one over the other without hurting himself, 

 to turn short without embarrassment or diffi- 

 culty, and to give grace, etc. : they are not 

 less necessary to a horseman under many 

 other relations. 



If he desires to train a young horse to the 

 lesson of the epaule en dedans, when he will 

 know how to trot freely with both hands on 

 the circle, and on a straight line, with a 

 tranquil and equal pace ; when he will have 

 accustomed him to make rests and half rests, 

 and to carry his head inward, he must lead 

 him to a little step slow and short, the length 

 of the wall, and place him in a manner that 

 his hips and his shoulders will be on two dif- 

 ferent lines. 



The line of the hips should be near to the 

 wall, and that of the shoulders a little more 

 distant ; the horse bent to the hand where 

 you conduct him, that is to say, instead of 

 holding him entirely straight on the hips and 

 shoulders on the same line, you must turn his 

 head and shoulders a little inward, as if you 

 wished to turn him effectively, and without 

 letting him quit this oblique and circular at- 

 titude, to make him go forwards along the 



