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INCLINE TO THE LEFT 



CH. XIV 



fault of drawing the right hand away from the left and 

 the reins with it, — the source of much bad driving. 



The method just described occupies the right hand 

 and prevents, for the time, the use of the whip, for 

 the whip never must be used while the whip hand is on 

 the reins. There is another method which is neater 

 and which leaves the whip hand free ; this is, to take 



FlG. I36. POINT OF TWO NEAR REINS. 



a point or loop with both lead-rein and wheel-rein 

 of the proper side in the left hand and to hold it, 

 forwarding the hand slightly to make up for the 

 point, until it is necessary to return to the original 

 direction, when the points are simply allowed to run 

 through the fingers. All this time, the right hand is 

 free to use the whip on a wheeler, if necessary, or 

 to increase for a moment the effect of the point. 

 This is much the better way of making; the move- 

 ment, but it requires strength in the fingers, par- 



