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horse is completely gathered when he feels him ready, as 

 it were, to rise from all four of his legs. The proper 

 position firstj and then the use of the spurs, will make 

 this beautiful execution of the gathering easy to both 

 horse and rider ; and what splendor, grace and majesty it 

 gives the animal ! If we have been obliged at first to 

 use the spurs in pushing this concentration of forces 

 to its farthest limits, the legs will afterwards be suffi- 

 cient to obtain the gathering necessary for the pre- 

 cision and elevation required in all complicated move- 

 ments. 



Need I recommend discretion in your demands ? I 

 think not. If the rider, having reached this stage of 

 his horse's education, cannot comprehend and seize 

 that fineness of touch, that delicacy of process indis- 

 pensable to the right application of my principles, it 

 will prove him devoid of every feeling of a horseman ; 

 nothing I can say can remedy this imperfection of his 

 nature. 



