150 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



hands of a monkey." It is true that the 

 use of the spurs requires prudence, tact, 

 and gradation ; but the effects of it are pre- 

 cious. Now that I have proved the efficacy 

 of my method ; now that I see my most 

 violent adversaries become warm partisans 

 of my principles, I no longer fear to develop 

 a process that I consider one of the most 

 beautiful results of my long researches in 

 horsemanship. 



There is no more difference in the sensi- 

 bility of different horses' flanks than in their 

 sensibility of mouth that is to say, the 

 direct effect of the spur is nearly the same 

 in them all. I have already shown that 

 the organization of the bars of the mouth 

 goes for nothing in its resistances to the 

 hand. It is clear enough that if the nose, by 

 being thrown up in the air, gives the horse 

 a force of resistance equal to two hundred 

 pounds, this force will be reduced to one 



