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of a horse who by ignorance or disobedience 

 draws the bridle in raising the nose in front, 

 that he draws the hand ; of him who rests 

 upon the bit as upon a fifth leg, that he is 

 heavy in the hand ; of him who gives blows 

 with the head, as if to shake off the bridle, 

 that he beats the hand, a very ordinary defect 

 among horses that have the hand badly placed, 

 or the lower jaws too sharp. To be in the 

 hands, and in the heels, is said of a horse 

 perfectly trained, who obeys in all circum- 

 stances with an equal facility the helps of 

 the hands and legs ; it is the beau ideal of 

 the perfection of a horse. 



Manege* This word is designed at once 

 to express the various exercises of the school 

 in which horses are taught, and the place in 

 which they are trained to these exercises. 

 It is said, in the first acceptation, that a horse 

 is well or badly trained at such or such a 

 manege : there are maneges for war and 

 maneges for schools. The manege in which 

 horses are exercised, is a space of one hund- 

 red and fifty feet long, by fifty wide, more or 

 less, and chosen in a firm soil, level and flat : 

 some are enclosed and covered, and some are 

 not. 



