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ous and unmanageable. The master hand was required, 

 and, under its influence, all such things as vice and being 

 unmanageable disappeared. Instead of violent force on 

 the part of man, which would only have produced more 

 violent force on the part of the brute, Baucher sought 

 out the sources of these resistances, and conquered them 

 in detail. 



Is it not worth a few weeks' pleasant labor with your 

 horse to be able to make him move with the grace, elegance 

 and majesty of this one, or of those we have since seen 

 ridden by Derious, and that French Amazon, Caroline 

 Loyo ? It is within the power of every one to do this 

 to a certain extent ; and as the education of the man as 

 a rider advances progressively with that of the horse, 

 there are, as Baucher himself says, no limits to the pro- 

 gress of horsemanship, and no performance, equestrianly 

 possible, that a horseman, who will properly apply his 

 principles, cannot make his horse execute. 



