318 UNTHOUGHT OF CUSTOMERS TO TRADESMEN. 



But though performing well is sure to meet its 

 reward, the not doing so is not always punished ; for 

 if it proceeds from not being perfect in the lesson, it 

 would be worse than useless to punish the horse : he 

 would get confused. Put him back to that part of the 

 lesson he thoroughly knows, in a day or two he will do 

 the difficult part of it. If a boy hesitates in spelling 

 application at once, make him spell the five syllables : 

 this will bring on application in every sense of the 

 word, and that gets him on to Aldeborontefoscofornio. 

 It is a leading principle in teaching these horses not 

 to hurry them in their lessons, but to make them 

 perfectly understand one part of them before they are 

 put to the next : and another rule is, never to ask so 

 much of them as to provoke resistance : a fight, 

 though it might subdue, would possibly spoil a trick 

 horse : so interest alone would prevent its ever taking 

 place when it could be avoided. 



We will now look at the keeping time to music, 

 usually termed dancing — country dances, reels, qua- 

 drilles. Polkas, or any thing else of the same sort. 



Many years since the manege was much more in 

 vogue than it is now. Lord Pembroke, Sir Sidney 

 Meadows, and many other men of fortune kept a stud 

 of manege horses. These all to a certain degree did 

 what may be termed dance ; and as it is not to be 

 supposed such men would treat tlieir horses unkindly, 

 it should rescue the teachers of dancing amphithe- 

 atrical horses from any charge of severity, much less 

 of cruelty, in instructing tlieirs. The usual mode of 

 teaching a manege horse to lift himself, or rather his 

 legs, as if keeping time to music, is simple enough : 

 he is put between the pillars : these are two posts that 



