136 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



the movement. General rule : the lateral 

 resistances of the neck are always to be 

 opposed by the aid of the snaffle, being very 

 careful not to commence to wheel until after 

 destroying the obstacle that opposed it. If 

 the use of the wrists remains very nearly 

 the same as formerly, it is not so with the 

 legs ; their motion will be diametrically op- 

 posite to that given them in the old style of 

 horsemanship. This innovation is so natu- 

 ral a one, that I cannot conceive why some 

 one did not apply it before me. 



It is by bearing the hand to the right 

 and making the right leg felt, people have 

 told me, (and I myself at first repeated it,) 

 that the horse is made to turn to the right. 

 With me, practice has always taken the 

 precedence of reasoning; and this is the 

 way I fir.st perceived the incorrectness of 

 this principle. 



Whatever lightness my horse had in a 



