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nasties will have made a rider of a person wlio may at first have 

 appeared incajDable of becoming such. Having mastered the 

 preliminary trials, he will impatiently await the first movements 

 of the horse, in order to give himself up to them with the ease 

 of an experienced rider. 



Fifteen days — thirty lessons — will be devoted to the walk, 

 the trot, and the gallop. Here the pupil should solely en- 

 deavor to follow the movements of the horse ; therefore, the in- 

 structor will oblige him to attend to his seat only, and not to at- 

 tempt to guide the horse. He will only require the pupil at 

 first, to ride straight before him ; and secondly, to ride in every 

 direction, with one rein of the snaffle in each hand. At the end 

 of four days — eight lessons — he may be directed to take the 

 curb rein in his left hand. The right hand, which is now free, 

 must be held alongside of the left, that he may early get the 

 habit of sitting square — with his shoulders abreast and equal. 

 The horse should be made to trot as much to the right as to the 

 left. When the seat is firmly settled at all the difierent paces, 

 the instructor will explain simply, the connection between the 

 wrists and the legs, as well as their separate eftects. 



Here the rider will commence the horse's education, by 

 following the progression I shall proceed to explain. The pupil 

 will be made to understand the reasons for each practice, and 

 will be so led to perceive how intimately the education of the 

 man is connected with that of the horse. 



1. Flexions of the loins for producing expansion of the chest,^ 

 four days, eight lessons. 



2. Displacements and replacements of the thighs, and flex- 

 ions of the legs, four days, eight lessons. 



3. General exercises of all the parts in succession, eight 

 days, sixteen lessons. 



4. Displacements of the trunk, exercises of the knees and 

 arms with weights in the hands, fifteen days, thirty lessons. 



5. Position of the rider, the horse being at a M^alk, a trot, 

 and a gallop, in order to fashion and confirm the seat at these 

 different paces, fifteen days, thirty lessons. 



6. Education of the horse by the rider, seventy-five days, 

 and one hundred and fifty lessons. 



