280 ON THE PULL AND HUSTLE. 



ground to the end of the sweat, that this pull and 

 hustle is often had recourse to, to keep a craving horse 

 going. The boy, firm and well down in his saddle, 

 his body upright, his feet rather forward, with his 

 hands raised, and a fast hold of his reins, sits thus cool 

 and determined, keeping his horseV head up and in 

 place ; and as occasion may require, he moves his hands 

 quickly up and down, now and then giving and taking 

 with his reins. If necessary, he twists or crosses his 

 hands over to the right or left of the horse's withers, 

 just as he finds him inclined to hang either to the one 

 side or the other. In this way, the boy can mostly 

 get the horse off his hanging, and when he has suc- 

 ceeded in getting him to go straight, he then pulls and 

 hustles him along, and having thereby roused him into 

 the pace he is ordered to go, keeps him at it. 



The boy presses the horse with the calves of his legs, 

 and now and then he throws his heels quickly back 

 with all his force against the horse's sides ; at the same 

 time, he is very likely to get up his ash plant and 

 flourish it near the horse's head or over his own ; or, if 

 necessary, he drops it smartly down upon his horse's 

 shoulders or under his belly. The boy then gets again 

 at his horse's head, takes a pull and gives him three or 

 four good hustles. In this way, by pulling, hustling, 

 and twisting, the boy, I may say, as it were, lifts the 

 horse along at every stride. If the boy finds, that not- 

 withstanding this exertion, which sometimes exhausts 

 his patience and temper, he cannot succeed in suffici- 

 ently rousing his horse, he will then have recourse to 



