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when we shall have to discover some other remedy. There 

 is not so much chance to change the action of the hind 

 legs as there is the legs in front, there being no posterior 

 joint, where the motion is so free and as capable of being 

 modulated, as the knee. You can now harness her, jog 

 five or six miles, and by that time I will be on the track 

 to see her move. 



PUPIL. I have driven the specified distance slow. What 

 will be the next order of exercises ? 



PRECEPTOR. Go the next round a three-and-a-half gait, 

 and as you come down the stretch, let it be at her best 

 speed. Pull her up at the stand, and take a medium rate 

 till you come here again, when you can go round the turn 

 as fast as you can drive without her breaking; then turn 

 round at the quarter post and come back. 



PTJPLL. There is some pleasure in driving her, apart 

 from that sideling motion, which is provoking enough. 

 In every other particular she will do just as you want her. 

 Should anything have been different from what you 

 intended, I am to blame, as the mare went exactly as I 

 directed her to go. 



PRECEPTOR. All was very proper. Throw the blanket 

 and hood on her, and let the boy walk her up the stretch. 

 I saw nothing in her movement to cause me to change the 

 opinion I have heretofore expressed. I think she touched 

 a little when she went round the turn. We will now put 

 the roll on, when you can drive her up the stretch to the 

 three-quarter pole, coming down at speed, which you will 

 keep up half way round the turn. Stop there, and come 

 back as fast as you can. 



That will do ; drive her to the barn, unharness. She 

 is not wet enough to scrape ; so have the boys straighten 

 her hair nicely, clothe her with blankets and hood, and 

 walk her half an hour, when she can be rubbed and 

 cleaned, the soles of her feet washed, stuffed with moist 



