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The Book of the Horse. 



balance. Practice and practice only enables the rider to instinctively bear to the proper side, 

 or lean back, as a horse turns, bounds, or leaps. 



" The movements of the rider should ever harmonise with those of the horse. Thus, when 

 the horse is standing still, at liberty and disunited, the rider in like manner sits at her ease. 



IJUITK WKONG. 



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and may be said to be also disunited ; as she begins to collect and unite her horse, so she 

 collects and unites herself When the rider is pressing her horse to the union, and drawing 

 from him his proudest and most animated action, then must her own bearing be the extreme 

 of elegance, and her animation in proportion to that of her horse." 



Perhaps it may be thought that in the preceding directions too much stress has been laid 



