INSTRUCTIONS TO RIDING BOYS. 133 



mind, always take a pull in time, and never let 

 it come to the last-described symptom of distress 

 with any horse. Nor must any of you, on any 

 account, get up your ash plant, even to flou- 

 rish it over your own head or that of a hearty 

 horse; and this more particularly stands good in 

 your riding of young ones, as yearlings or two 

 year olds. The only instance in which you may, 

 now and then, have occasion to raise your plant, 

 is, when any of you may be riding a craving, 

 idle, game sort of horse ; such a horse will not 

 only bear a blow patiently, but will answer to 

 it by increasing his pace ; and it is necessary 

 that such an one should at times be roused in 

 coming along with him, so as to make him keep 

 his place in going on in his sweat, and more 

 particularly when he comes to that part of the 

 ground where he is to be made to further extend 

 his stride, as when he is about to finish his last 

 two or three sweats." 



Such are the discourses, when opportunities 

 offer, that grooms should have with their boys, 

 so as to bring them not only to understand the 

 orders given them, but to understand such orders 

 in as few words as possible. For, bye-and-bye. 



