CHAPTER XVII. 



ON RIDING A FREE-GOING HORSE IN HIS SWEAT. 



Having, in the preceding chapter, given directions 

 for the instruction of a boy how to ride horses which 

 require perseverance to get them along at a certain 

 pace, I will now give the further necessary instructions 

 for riding horses of a different description. The horse 

 I will now make choice of for the boy to ride shall 

 be the one described in the foregoing chapter, sup- 

 posed to be sweating with the craving one. Therefore, 

 by way of example, I will sweat the same two horses 

 again, with only this difference — that of changing the 

 riders ; putting the boy on the kind, free runner, and 

 the head lad on the craving one. The horses having 

 arrived on the sweating ground, the head lad gives 

 his orders to the boy to sit quiet, to keep a gentle pull 

 on his horse, and to follow him. They then set 

 their horses on their legs at a quiet, striding pace. 

 They will most likely not have proceeded far, before 



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