108 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



IV. 



CONTINUATION OF SUPPLINGS. 



The 7dnd-parts. — In order to guide the 

 horse, the rider acts directly on two of his 

 parts ; the fore-parts and the hind-parts. 

 To effect this he employs two motive pow- 

 ers : the legs, which give the impulse by 

 the croup; and the hand, which directs and 

 modifies this impulse by the head and neck. 

 A perfect harmony of forces ought then to 

 exist always between these two motive 

 powers ; but the same harmony is equally 

 necessary between the parts of the animal 

 which they are intended particularly to im- 

 press. Our labor to render the head and 

 neck flexible, light, and obedient to the 

 touch of the hand, would be vain, its results 

 incomplete, and the equilibrium of the whole 



