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should show off all his finest and most bril- 

 liant performances willingly and at a mere 

 sign. If he goes on at his exercise till he is 

 covered with sweat, and then if you dismount 

 and unbridle him the moment he rears up in 

 fine style, you must be sure that he will come 

 to the act of rearing with a will. This is the 

 attitude in which the horses of gods and 

 heroes are always depicted, and men who 

 can handle a horse gracefully in it are a 

 magnificent sight. The horse rearing thus 

 is such a thing of wonder as to fix the eyes 

 of all beholders, young or old. Nobody, I 

 assure you, either leaves him or gets tired 

 of watching him as long as he presents the 

 brilliant spectacle. 



Yet if it chance that the owner of such a 

 horse should command a troop 57 or regiment 

 of cavalry, he should not aspire to be the 

 only brilliant figure himself, but should try 

 all the more to make the whole line that 

 follows a sight worth seeing. If he goes 

 on ahead at an extremely slow pace, with 

 his horse rearing very high and very often, 

 it is obvious that the rest of the horses 

 would have to follow him at a walk. What 



