96 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



the second for the rassemhler, or gathering 

 the horse.* 



Combination of effects. — I published four 

 editions of my Method, without devoting a 

 special article to the combination of effects. 

 Although I myself made a very frequent 

 use of it, I had not attached sufficient im- 

 portance to the great necessity of this prin- 

 ciple in the case of teaching; later experi- 

 ments have taught me to consider it of more 

 consequence. 



The combination of effects means the con- 

 tinued and exactly opposed forces of the 

 hand and the legs. Its object should be to 

 bring back again into a position of equili- 



* The full meaning of the word rassembler will be 

 understood after reading the chapter, further on in this 

 work, under that head. With regard to the word ramenevj 

 to avoid the constant circumlocution of saying, "placing 

 the horse's head in a perpendicular position," it will be 

 used in future wherever it -occurs. — Translator, 



