124 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



Without doubt they would have been vain, 

 had we made use of a bad course of pro- 

 ceeding ; but the wise system of progression 

 that we have introduced into our work, the 

 destruction of the instinctive forces of the 

 horse, the suppling, the separate subjection 

 of all the rebellious parts, have soon placed 

 in our power the whole of his mechanism 

 to a degree which enables us to govern it 

 completely, and to restore that pliability, 

 ease, and harmony of the parts, which their 

 bad arrangement threatened always to pre- 

 vent. As I shall point out hereafter, in 

 classing the general division of the labor, it 

 will be seen that eight or ten days are suffi- 

 cient to obtain these important results. 



Was I not right then in saying that if it 

 is not in my power to change the defective 

 formation of a horse, I can yet prevent 

 the consequences of his physical defects, 

 so as to render him as fit to do everything 



