346 THE HORSE, 



the case with a small and sharp snaffle &r with a curb. The same 

 caution must now be exercised as before witli regard to a too long 

 continuance of the early lessons. The young hunter, as well as the 

 steeplechaser, should be gradually accustomed to his practice, 

 consequently should never have too mnch at first ; as there is 

 some danger of disgusting him by needless repetition. 



And here, a few months since, I should have closed my ob- 

 servations on riding and breaking, for the manege is neither at- 

 tainable in this country, except by the aid of circus companies, 

 nor necessary to a rider ; though, if superadded to the other 

 qualifications of a good field and road horseman, it is a grace to 

 an equestrian, and a vast excellence to every horse, except a race- 

 horse, a hunter, and a trotter, for two of which manegG rules 

 would be utterly useless, if not positively detrimental, and for 

 the third — the hunter — only in a very preliminary and moderate 

 degree desirable, so far, I mean, as teaching him how to get his 

 hind legs under him. 



Lately, however, I have come across Mr, Bauchei-'s system 

 of horsemanship, both as teaching men how to ride themselves, 

 and how to break horses, by an invariable, uniform and infalli- 

 ble method, I have no hesitation, although I took it up with 

 considerable doubt and distrust, in adopting it as all that it pre- 

 tends to be ; and in most urgently recommending all my read- 

 ers, who desire to become perfect riders themselves, and to have 

 their horses perfectly broken, to adopt all his preliminary steps, 

 both of learning to ride and of breaking, as the best ever intro- 

 duced, and as inftillibly certain, if practised with patience and 

 temper, to produce the result desired. 



So satisfied am I of the excellence of this method, and of the 

 advantage of introducing it, that not being, by any means, satis- 

 fied with the rendering of the original in the only American 

 edition, I have i)repared a version of such parts of the work as I 

 judge essential to the learning how to make accomplished riders, 

 and thoroughly-broken horses for general purposes — not carry- 

 ing the system to its extreme length, which would make all 

 horses perfect manege, or circus, or cavalry horses, and all 

 riders, riding-masters, circus-masters, or dragoons — which is 

 neither necessary nor desirable — and this I now submit to my 

 readers. I farther advise any one, who desires to have a per- 



