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Thus, thirty-five lessons have sufficed to 

 perfect the instruction of the tractable as 

 well as the intractable horses confided to 

 me. The first rough work with the horse 

 that is to say, the exercises with the 

 snaffle prescribed by the orders used to 

 take up as much time as this, and then we 

 scarcely dared to touch the curb-rein. In 

 this view, the new system is of great utility 

 for cavalry. 



" But the promptness with which we can 

 put new horses in the ranks is not the only 

 advantage the new method presents; it 

 guarantees, besides, the preservation of the 

 horse ; it develops his faculties and his pow- 

 ers ; these increase by the harmony and pro- 

 per application of the forces among them- 

 selves, and by their rational and opportune 

 use. It is not the immoderate employment 

 of force which conquers a rebellious horse, 

 but the well-combined use of an ordinary 



