THE EQUESTRIAN ART. 257 



" of the faddle, and (land a moment on your 

 " ftirrup, juft as when you mounted. But 

 " beware that in difmounting, you bend not 

 your right knee, left the horfe fhould be 

 touched by the fpur. Grafp the reins with 

 your hand, putting your little finger between 

 them. Your ^nd muft be perpendicular, 

 your thumb uppermoft upon the bridle. 

 " Suffer him not to finger the reins (the 

 groom, in holding the horfe) but only to 

 meddle with that part of the headftall, 

 " which comes down the horfe's cheek : to hold 

 a horfe by the curb, when he is to ftand (till, 

 is very wrong, becaufe it puts him to need- 

 lefs pain, 



" When you are troubled with a horfe that 

 is vicious, which flops (hort, or by riling of 

 " kicking endeavours to throw you off, you 

 " muft not bend your body forward, as is com- 

 " monly praclifed in fuch cafes ; becaufe that 

 " motion throws the breech backward, and 

 il moves you from your fork or twift, and cafts 

 you out of your feat: but the right way to 

 keep your feat, or to recover it when loft, 

 is, to advance the lower part of your body, 

 " and to bend back your (houlders and upper 

 part. In flying or Jianding leaps, a horfe- 

 man's beft fecurity is, the bending back of 

 the body. 



" The rifing of the horfe does not affect the 

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