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more apt to find a proper system in 

 some work that has received the ap- 

 probation of the authorities upon the 

 subject than in the instruction he 

 receives from grooms and self-styled 

 masters. The instructions given to the 

 recruits in the military riding- schools 

 are, for the greater part, a repetition 

 by the instructor of the printed rules, 

 which he must leam by rote. I 

 have known many good riders who 

 owed all they knew in the art to a 

 study of the intricate laws laid down 

 by Baucher. I have many times taught 

 movements to horses by following the 

 directions of competent writers, and I 

 have never failed in accomplishing that 

 which I undertook. 



I wrote How to Bide, and I wi'ite 



