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the military extension-motions. In a very few 

 days you will find, if you are in tolerable 

 health and strength to begin with, that you 

 naturally stand and walk with your waist drop- 

 ping in and your bust expanded. Then get 

 on horseback again. You will immediately 

 become aware that you have taken a consi- 

 derable step in advance. The flexure of the 

 loins which is necessary to combine the proper 

 positions of the fork and bust, is no longer irk- 

 some. In other words, you have no longer 

 any physical uneasiness in sitting your horse 

 as you ought. 



But, above all things, do not permit your- 

 self to shirk this preliminary difficulty. Be 

 assured that it is a difficulty, and that it must 

 be fairly faced and conquered. The fork 

 home on the saddle, and the bust poised upon 

 the fork, are the indispensable conditions of a 

 good seat on horseback ; and they cannot be 

 united without hollowing the waist to a degree 

 which most men will find at first exceedingly 

 tiresome. Work patiently on until it ceases to 

 be so. You will be well rewarded for your 

 trouble. It is this position, correctly taken 

 and skilfully kept, which gives fine riders that 



