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wards, and the arm hanging carelefsly down without 

 contradion, and when the whip is made ufe off let 

 Jt be by means of the wrift, without hfting the arm 

 from the body, and be careful not to touch the horfe 

 with the whip too backward as many of them will 

 kick on their bemg flogged in that part, which if it 

 (hoiild not occafion a fall, would much alarm the 

 young icholar, before flie has acquired any degree of 

 Daiiance* 



DIRECTIONS FOR THE LENGTH OF THE STIRRUP 



THE Stirrup fhould be fuch length as when the 

 kdy fits upright and properly on her feat, with the 

 knee being eafily bent, the heel kept back w th he 

 toe rai ed a little higher than the heel, fo tha^ the 

 heel h,pandthefl.oulder, are in a Hne and as up! 

 right as when walking along, for if other wife it is uniifft 

 and not agreeable to nature ; for fuppofe you are 



forS "Pk'^I 'T'^r^' '^'' ^°°' ""^k out and fo 

 for^.,d as the horfes front of his fhoulder, as is not 

 uncommon to fee girls riding in this manner along 

 he road ,n the country, as tho' they were direftin! 

 with their foot which road their horfe ftould take" 

 I lay this method is not only very unbecoming but 

 ^^rf '•' /T 'f'""'' 'f ''ding carelefsly flong 

 to n.f! f a t ^°°' """^ '^g '" ^his attitude bein| 

 to pafs fo.ne ftubborn or inflexible objeft on the left 

 or near fide, perhaps before you are aware or 



apprifed 



