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CHAP. XVI. 



Of the fever al Help and Corrections with the S furs. 



THE Spurs ferve as well for Help as Correction: 

 as Helps they go before and prevent Faults ; as 

 Corrections they come after. And a Man having no- 

 thing but his Hand and Heels to make a ready Horie, 

 the Spurs do half the bufinefs, altho' it mull be con- 

 fefs'd that the Hand hath the pre-eminency, and the 

 fettling a Horfe upon the Hand muft always be firft. 



They are ufed as a Help thus -, When a Horfe goes 

 Terra a ierra^ your outward Leg clofe to him, whea 

 he flacks turn your Heel to him, and pinch him with 

 the Spur, which you may eafily do, even to bring 

 Blood and no Body perceive it : And if a Horfe fuf- 

 fer and obey this while you ftay him upon the Hand, 

 you may with good reafon fay he is an excellent Horfe. 

 There is another Help with the Spurs, which is nei- 

 ther fo violent as a Correction, Tiox fo prefling as Pinch* 

 ing, and it is this ; when a Horfe gallops his Croup in, 

 ox Terr a al err a, if he obeys not your outward Leg 

 enough, being clofe to or very near his fide, thea. 

 make a motion of the Leg as if you did Spur him, 

 but with as gentle a touch as poffible, and only to let 

 him feel it and no more. Now if your Horfe under- 

 ftand thefe two preceding Helps with the Spurs, he 

 will need them but very feldom after a while, and 

 will obey you with the Calves of your Legs only. 



The Spurs are a Correct ion for many things: If your 

 Horfe rebel againft what you would have him do, 

 leave not fpurring of him until you find him begin to 

 obey, and when he obeys you in the leaft, then alight 

 and fend him to the Stable, and the next Morning 

 try him again, and if he obey you, cherifh and make 

 much of him, that he may know you have Mercy as 

 well as Juflice, for a Horfe hath Imagination^ Memory ^ 

 and Judgment j and the wifeft Man in the World, 



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