THE FIRST WORK ON FOOT 



make the horse understand the action of the rider's 

 legs, at the later stage when the animal is mounted. 

 In this, Fillis is essentially right. 



Baucher's practice is somewhat different. He 

 faces the horse, taking, at first, the two snaffle reins 

 in his left hand, and later, bit reins and snaffle reins 

 alternately. With the whip, held in his right hand, 

 he makes light touches on the horse's chest. The 

 horse, thereupon, backs. But as the touches 

 continue, the horse, finding backing of no avail, 

 decides to go forward. It is thereupon rewarded 

 with caresses, until, very shortly, merely showing 

 the whip near the chest will obtain forward move- 

 ment and contact with the bits. (Figure 3.) 



