18 NEW METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



to a seat still more impracticable. But now I have 

 proved the contrary — that, upon my plan, horses have 

 been broken by troops without regard to the men's 

 seat. To give more force to my method, and render it 

 more easily comprehensible, I have divested it of all 

 accessories, and said nothing about those new principles 

 that concern the rider's seat. I reserved these last until 

 after the indisputable success of the official trials. By 

 means of these principles, added to those I have publish- 

 ed upon the art of horse-breaking, I both shorten the 

 man's work, and establish a system not only precise, but 

 complete in these two important parts of horsemanship, 

 hitherto so confused. 



By following my new instructions relating to the man's 

 seat on horseback, we will promptly arrive at a certain 

 result ; they are as easy to understand as to demonstrate. 

 Two sentences are sufficient to explain all to the rider, 

 and he will get a good seat by the simple advice of the 

 instructor. 



The seat of the rider. — The rider will expand his chest 

 as much as possible, so that each part of his body rests 

 upon tliat next below it, for the purpose of increasing 

 the adhesion of his buttocks to the saddle; the arms will 

 fall easily by the sides. The thighs and legs must, by 

 their own strength, find as many points of contact as 

 possible with the saddle and the horse's sides; the feet 

 will naturally follow the motion of the legs. 



You see by these few lines how simple the rider's 

 seat is. 



The means which I point out for quickly obtaining a 

 good seat, remove all the difficulties which the plan pur- 

 sued by our predecessors presented. The pupil used to 

 understand nothing of the long catechism, recited in a 

 loud voice by the instructor, from the first word to the 



