130 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



The walk. This pace is the mother of 

 all the other paces; by it we will obtain the 

 cadence, the regularity, and the extension of 

 the others. But to obtain these brilliant re- 

 sults, the rider must display as much know- 

 ledge as tact. The preceding exercises 

 have led the horse to bear the combined 

 effect of hand and legs, which could not 

 have been done previously to the destruc- 

 tion of his instinctive resistances; we have 

 now only to act on the inert resistances 

 which appertain to the animal's weight; 

 upon the forces which move only when an 

 impulse is communicated to them. 



Before making the horse go forward, we 



This mute, laconic language consists of these few words. 

 You are doing badly; this is what you should do; you 

 do well now. It is sufficient for the rider to be able to 

 translate, by his mechanism, the meaning of these three 

 remarks, to possess all the equestrian erudition, and share 

 his intelligence with his horse. 



