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followed up by brisk trotting ones ; and, for the same 

 reason, it is of great importance, when practicable, to 

 take the horse out of the school occasionally, and let it 

 have a good straight-ahead go after the English fashion.. 

 The dumb-jockey being much used in this country, 

 it becomes necessary to say a word on the subject. 

 This instrument represents a pair of hands without legs, 

 and therefore can at best only perform just one-half of 

 the work we have now under consideration, and even 

 this imperfectly. We must therefore call the whip to 

 our aid in order to supply the want of the legs, which 

 the whip will do, but then we can never attain the 

 alternately-graduated pull on each rein successively, nor 

 vary the pressure so readily. Moreover, the problem 

 to be solved being the distribution of weight, with the 

 dumb-jockey we can only adjust that of the animal 

 itself, the whole of whose equilibrium being overthrown 

 when the rider once gets on its back, we are then 

 compelled to begin the entire process de novo. The 

 judgment, tact, and power of appreciation of a really 

 good rider will produce far better results, and, on 

 the whole, in a shorter time than the dumb-jockey 

 ever can do, except perhaps as a triumph of art in the- 

 circus, or for the purpose of combating some special 

 form of vice ; nevertheless, it is evident, from what has 

 been just said, that this instrument may be used with 

 advantage by those who wish to train on the English 

 system. Y/hat we have here given is merely a sketch 

 of so much of the school system as suffices to bring 

 horses into obedience in fact, the A B C of the method 

 as it would lead us altogether beyond the limits we 

 have proposed to ourselves to go further than this into 

 the detail of menage-riding, even if we felt ourselves 



