Parti. TerfeEk Farrier. 6t 



to feel him on the Hand, letting him go at a Step 

 according to his own Fancy and Humour, with his 

 Head lolling if he will, and you no ways troubling 

 him : Now if you can have but patience to let him 

 walk thus for a quarter of an Hour, if he incline 

 to (tumble, he will trip more than once, and per- 

 haps falute the Ground with his !Nofe, if he be very 

 fubje& to it. If he be heavy on the Hand, he will 

 reft wholly upon the Bitt, and be a burden to the 

 Bridle-hand. If he be dull and lazy, he will ditni- 

 nifh infenfibly the train of his Walk, and will at 

 laft ftand ftill. To put him on again, you muffi 

 move gently your Body and Legs, nay, even your 

 Arms, and infallibly you will know your Horfe 

 better thus in half an Hour, than in half a Day by 

 any other Method. Again, if after having made 

 this proof, you caufe him to go at an attentive 

 Pace, and that he be under the appreheniion of your 

 Spurs, he will unite all his ftrength and mettle to 

 pleafe you ; whereas if you fuffer'd him to walk on 

 negligently at his pleafure, he would not much help 

 or advance his Sale } becaufe it is commonly in the 

 firft hundred yards or fo, that a Horfe after he hath 

 been fwitch'd or fpur'd, gives the greateft token of 

 his Mettle, by reafon the correction he received is 

 fo long frefh in his Memory : But if after he is once 

 freed of that appreheniion, by your negligence in 

 preffing him on, and flacknefs of your Thighs 

 and Legs, he notwithstanding go chearfully for- 

 ward, with a raifed and well-placed Head, and 

 champing his Bitt, his Step well-raifed and refolute, 

 without either Humbling or ftriking the Clods or 

 Stones in the way, 1 fay, fuch a Horfe without 

 doubt cannot but be vigorous and mettled, and alfo 

 go well. 



As for Amblers they fhould go roundly and equally, 

 that is, their Hind-Quarters fhould exadlly accom- 

 pany their Fore, and not go as if they were in two 



pieces 



