28 Tie Art of Biding, 



have said, possesses an extremely fine nervous 

 structure, and when you are on his back and 

 throw your thoughts, as it were, in any direction 

 you wish him to go, the muscular action accom- 

 panying your thoughts will be instantly detected 

 by him, and he will answer to the influence. 



There is, of course, vigorous muscular action 

 required in making known your wishes to the 

 Horse to get him to act prompth', but it all pro- 

 ceeds from the will, without which there can be 

 no strong muscular action. Let a rider about to 

 take a jump be uncertain, hesitate, or feel timid, 

 and ten to one the horse will refuse it. The 

 above, then, is what I mean by "conveying your 

 thoughts to the Horse." 



It is simply an electric current running like 

 lightning from the brain through the nerves to the 



