CHAPTER VIII. 



THERE are many occasions, of course, 

 when the horse will have to run down 

 hill and up hill and along a slope, as well as 

 to take a leap across or out of something and 

 to jump down. So all these movements must 

 be learned and practised by both horse and 

 rider. The two will thus become obviously 

 the more helpful and useful to one another. 

 If it is thought that I am repeating myself 

 because I am speaking now of what I have 

 spoken before, let me say that there is no 

 repetition here. I did lay down that you 

 should try whether the horse could do all 

 this at the time you bought him ; but what 

 I am now urging is that a man should teach 



