ao8 The Cowpleat Horfeman : or y 



outward Hind-Leg, and under his Belly \ and then 

 his outward Hind-Leg will make the fourth and lead 

 Square or Circle, becaufe it is fo much plied in the 

 Gambrel by retting upon it. 



Remember that you keep not your Bridle-hand too 

 high but low, that fo your Horfe may go low and 

 preft, becaufe he will always go according to the 

 height of your Hand : Now Terra a Terra, fhould al- 

 ways be low and preft. But I rauft alfo tell you, 

 that the pulling the inward Rein of the Bridle prefTes 

 the Horfe upon the Outfide, weighs him up, and puts 

 him upon the Haunches, efpecially upon his outward 

 Hind-Leg, fo that all his Body leaneth upon the Out- 

 fide, and he cannot bring in his outward Shoulder, for 

 it is bound up as it were, to give his Fore-Leg within 

 the Turn liberty to lead. Now you may know by 

 his Neck, whether he is couch'd or leans upon his Out- 

 fide or not ', for if he do, his Neck will lean all on 

 the Outfide, and your Body, if you follow the Mo- 

 tion of the Horfe, will incline to be concave on the 

 Outfide, z\\c\ convex within, which would be very un- 

 becoming, and therefore you mutt, as much as pof- 

 fible, prevent it *, fo that the Horfe being thus preft 

 and 'couched upon the Outfide, bringeth in his 

 Haunch as he fhould do, and hath three Legs in the 

 Air at once, to wit, his two Fore-Legs and his inward 

 Hinder-Lev, with a Leap forward low and preft. 



The fame Directions muft be obferved for the left 

 Hand as for the right, only altering the Bridle-hand^ 

 Body and Lew % and for the Bridle-hand it is neceffary, 

 that when you go to the left Hand, you fhould put 

 vour Hand on the contrary Side of his Neck, which 

 is without, your Arm clofe to your Body, and 

 Knuckles of your Bridle-hand turned towards his 

 Keck which will pull the inward Rein of the Bridle 

 for the left Hand, becaufe it lies under your little 

 Finger and this will make both your Body and 

 the Horfe's oblique, and alfo make every thing 



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