22 Horse and Man. 



or a month of hard drudgery will be amply 

 rewarded by such a result. 



Your assistant may now put your horse 

 into a steady canter. You will find this pace 

 much easier to sit than the trot, but not at 

 first easier to sit well. The action of the horse 

 no longer jolts you from side to side ; it tends 

 to tilt you upwards and forwards. This sen- 

 sation will at first make you stiffen yourself 

 without being conscious of it ; and you will 

 be tempted to mitigate your consequent con- 

 cussion upon the saddle, not by the difficult 

 though effectual expedient of keeping your 

 waist concave and making it supple, but by 

 the easy though imperfect makeshift of allow- 

 ing it to remain stiff and become convex. 

 You have only to do as you did in learning to 

 trot. Keep your waist concave by force, and 

 allow it to become supple by degrees ; and you 

 will soon experience the delightful sensation of 

 sailing along at full gallop without stirring 

 in your saddle. 



When you can sit your horse perfectly in 

 his trot and canter, you possess a seat such as 

 not one rider in half-a-dozen ever acquires. 

 You are still far from being a good horseman. 



