68 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



III. 



THE SUPPLINGS. 



THIS work being an exposition of a me- 

 thod which upsets most of the old principles 

 of horsemanship, it is understood that I 

 only address men already conversant with 

 the art, and who join to an assured seat a 

 familiarity with the horse, sufficiently great 

 to understand all that concerns his mechan- 

 ism. I will not, then, revert to the element- 

 ary processes ; it is for the instructor to 

 judge if his pupil possess a proper degree 

 of solidity of seat, and is sufficiently a part 

 of the horse ; for at the same time that a 

 good seat produces this identification, it 

 favors the easy and regular play of the 

 rider's extremities. 



My present object is to treat principally 



