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wall, assisting him with the inward leg, and 

 sustaining him lightly with the outside leg. 



Now it is evident that he cannot go in this 

 position without throwing the inside leg over 

 the outside one. 



M. de la Gueriniere, from whom I borrow 

 the greatest part of this article, regards the 

 lesson of the epaule en dedans, as the most 

 advantageous of all those that can be employ- 

 ed to give a horse a perfect suppleness, and 

 an entire freedom in all his parts. This is 

 so true, says he, that a horse trained accor- 

 ding to these principles, and spoiled afterwards 

 by a bad horseman, passing afterwards into 

 the hands of an able man, will be re-established 

 very soon. The principal effects of this 

 lesson, are to supple the shoulders, to put the 

 horse upon his hips, and to dispose him to 

 avoid the heels. 



To execute the changings of the hand in 

 the lesson of epaule en dedans, you must, 

 without removing the bend of the head and 

 of the neck, correct the shoulders and the 

 hips, quit the wall, and make the horse go 

 diagonally until he has reached the new 

 track on which you wish him to go. There 

 you must place his head to the left, if it was 



