BAUCHER'S 



NEW METHOD OF HOESEMANSIIIP. 



CHAPTER I. 



NEW MEANS OF OBTAIXIXG A GOOD SEAT 



" It may undoubtedly be thought astonishing that, in 

 the first editions of this work, having for its object the 

 horse's education, I should not have commenced by speak- 

 ing of the rider's seat. In fact, this, so important a part 

 of horsemanship, has always been the basis of classical 

 works on this subject. Xevertheless, it is not without 

 a motive that I have deferred treating of this question 

 until now. Had I had nothing new to say on this subject, I 

 might very easily have managed, by consulting old 

 authors, by transposing a sentence here and changing a 

 word there, to have sent forth into the equestrian world 

 another inutility. But I had other ideas; I wished to 

 make a thorough reform. My system for giving a good 

 seat to the rider, being also an innovation, I feared lest 

 so many new things at one time should alarm even the 

 best intentioned amateurs, and give a hold to my adver- 

 saries. They would not have failed to say that my 

 means of managing a horse were impracticable, or 

 that they could not be applied without recourse 



