CORRECTIONS. 



Ladies certainly ought not to ride horses which 

 require extraordinary correction. For numerous rea- 

 sons, which must occur to our readers, a lady should 

 never be seen in the act of positively flogging her steed : 

 such a sight would destroy every previous idea that had 

 been formed of her grace or gentleness. Moderate cor- 

 rections are, however, sometimes necessary; and the fair 

 rider should make no scruple of ha\ang recom-se to 

 them when absolutely needful, but not otherwise. 

 Astley, in his work on the management of the horse, 

 after very properly recommending all quarrels between 

 the steed and his rider to be avoided, observes, that 

 too much indulgence may induce the horse to consider 

 " that you are afraid of him ; " and, our author adds, 

 "if he should once think you are really so, you will 

 find he will exercise every means to con\ince you 

 that he considers liimself your master, instead of ac- 

 knowledging, by imphcit obedience, that you are his." 



Those, who imagine that a horse is to be corrected 

 only with the whip, are very much mistaken. The 

 aids and animations of the leg, the bridle-hand, the 

 body, and the voice, may be made sufficiently severe to 

 correct and render a horse obedient in all ordinary 

 cases. Severe flogging seldom produces any good 



