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knowledge of the peculiar duties of the caval- 

 ry; and to take an example from lower life, 

 many dealers in fat flock, have little or no 

 judgment in lean Mores. 



There are many perfons unaccuflomed to 

 riding on horfeback, who, when they occafion- 

 ally monnt, are very juftly anxious both for 

 their perianal fafety, and their appearance. It 

 is for the benefit of thefe I write. If they will 

 immediately adopt my rules, they will not 

 only make a refpe&able horfeman-like appear- 

 ance, but will place themfelves in the line of 

 improvement, and in a fituation the bed cal- 

 culated to infure their fafety. Inflead of being 

 unable to keep their fpurs from the horfe's 

 fides, they would, with a proper feat, expe- 

 rience confiderable difficulty in reaching them. 

 It is too often neglected, even by people who 

 are fond of horfes, to teach their children a 

 good feat, thinking it probably quite fufficient 

 if they can but flick faft; and I have feen 

 young gentlemen riding with their fathers, in a 

 ery vulgar and unbecoming ftyle. 

 I cannot fpeak to the antiquity of the Englifn 

 fafhion of riling in the ftirrups during a trot, 

 and of preferving time with the motions of the 

 body, in unifon with thofe of the horfe ; but I 

 think the knowledge of it is difcoverable in 

 Baret, and in no author before him. It would 

 be fuperfluous to give directions on this prac- 

 tice 



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