CHAPTER XVIII. 



ON RIDING A FLIGHTY HORSE IN HIS EXERCISE, 

 AND SWEAT. 



I HAVE described in the last two chapters how the 

 boy should be ordered to ride a craving horse, and a 

 free kind going horse. Let us suppose the boy to 

 have been riding different horses of the latter descrip- 

 tion, and that his temper is thereby so much improved, 

 that he is become very cool and patient on horseback, 

 and can ride well. 



As there is another race-horse to be trained, differing 

 in description from either of the last mentioned, and as 

 he is to be very differently managed in his riding, I 

 think it necessary, with a view further to instruct the 

 boy, to point out here how such a horse should be 

 rode. 



The horse I now allude to, is in every respect the 

 very reverse of the craving one. He is delicate in his 

 constitution, irritable and flighty in his temper, and 



