THE HIGH SCHOOL. I 6 



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fore-feet were planted before the hind-feet touched 

 earth. 



The Terre-a-Tei've is a term now seldom used, 

 the movement it designated being nothing more 

 than a high school-gallop upon two paths, the horse 

 being so closely restrained that the hoof-beats of 

 each extremity were so nearly simultaneous that but 

 one sound was audible as the fore-feet or the hind- 

 feet were planted. 



The Mezmr is a series of small curvets, and, 

 although it is seldom taught, it may sometimes be 

 seen in the undesired actions of an excited horse 

 that hesitates to force the rider's hand, just as under 

 like circumstances the animal may perform a fair 

 piaff. 



Every movement in which the horse is exercised 

 in its education belongs, as I have said, to the High 

 School, for there are certain necessary steps to the 

 highest branch of training ; but the term was origin- 

 ally understood to embrace only the high airs of 

 the inmtdge, such as the cM7^vet, the croiipade, etc. 

 We now apply the term High School to all the 

 merely ornamental movements of horsemanship, 

 and I have accepted the modern and more compre- 

 hensive meaning, as it seemed useful to distinguish 

 the ornamental movements from those which are 

 essential in the education of horses for general 



