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iliade but with great caution, and exaftly when your 

 horfe is well together and in hand ; and take care in 

 counterbalancing by throwing back your body, 

 that the weight of the body lie upon his haunches. 



The Bit and Snaffle were they to be kept conftant- 

 ly in one place in his mouth, would of courfe dull 

 the fenfe of feehng, and become benumbed and cal- 

 lous; this {hews the neceffity of continually yeilding 

 and drawing back the hand to keep the horfe's mouth 

 frelb and awake. It is therefore felf evident that a 

 heavy handed horfeman can never break a horfe to 

 any degree of nicety, or ride one which is already 

 broke to any degree of exaelnefs. 



Befides thefe rules, there are others not lefs jufl and 

 certain ; (but whofe nicenefs and refinement is not 

 the lot of every perfon to tafle and underfland) my 

 hand being in the firfh pofition, 1 open my two middle 

 fingers, I confequently eafe and flacken myright rein; 

 I fhut my hand, the right rein operates again, refum- 

 ing its place as before, I open my little finger and 

 carrying the end of it upon the right rein, I there- 

 by llacken the left and fhorten the right ; I fhut my 

 hand entirely and im^miediately open it again, I thereby 

 lefTen the degree of tenfion and force of the two 

 reins at the fame time ; again I clofe my hand not 

 quite fo much, but flill I dole it. 



It is by thefe methods and by the vibration of the 

 reins, that I unite the feeling in my hand with that 

 in the horfe's mouth, and thus I play with a fine and 

 MADE mouth, and frefhen and relieve the two bars 

 in which the feeling rcfides. 



Therefore 



