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hand the energy and apropos necessary to 

 regulate its effects, the pain which the ani- 

 mal sustains will always be proportioned to 

 his resistances; and his instinct will soon 

 make him understand how he can diminish, 

 and even avoid altogether this constraint, 

 by promptly yielding to what we demand of 

 him. He will hasten then to submit, and 

 will even anticipate our desires. But, I re- 

 peat, it is only by means of tact and delicate 

 management that we will gain this important 

 point. If the legs give too vigorous an im- 

 pulse, the horse will quickly overcome the 

 motion of the hands, and resume with his 

 natural position all the advantages it gives 

 him to foil the efforts of the rider. If, on 

 the contrary, the hand present too great a 

 resistance, the horse will soon overcome the 

 legs, and find a means of defending himself 

 by backing. Yet these difficulties must not 

 be allowed to frighten us; they were only 

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