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or elfe by putting the Horfe under the Button^ as it is call'd ; 

 that is, by taking the End of the Reins in your Right-hand, 

 quitting them entirely with your Left, and letting the End of 

 them fall upon your Horfe's Neck : thefe Motions however, 

 which give a prodigious Grace to the Horfeman, never 

 fliould be made but with great Caution, and exactly in the 

 time when the Horfe is quite together, and in the Hand ; 

 and you muft take care to counter -balance, by throw- 

 ing back your Body, the Weight of the Horfe upon his. 

 Haunches. 



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The Apuy being always in the fame Degree, would heatr 

 the Mouth, would dull the Senfe of Feeling, would deaden 

 the Horfe's Bars, and render them infenfible and callous - 

 this fhews the NecefTity of continually yielding and drawr 

 ing back the Hand to keep the Florfe's Mouth freili and. 

 awake. 



Besides thefe Rules and Principles, there are others not 

 lefs jull and certain, but whofe Nicenefs and Refinement it 

 is not the Lot of every Man to be able to tafte and under- 

 ftand. My Hand being in the firft Pofition, 1 open the two 

 Middle-fingers, I confequently eafe and flacken my Right 

 Rein; I fluit my Hand, the Right Rein operates again, and 

 refumes the Apuy. I open my Little-finger, and putting 

 the End of it upon the Right Rein, I thereby flacken the 

 Left, and fhorten the Right. I fliut my Hand entirely, 

 and open it immediately again ; I thereby leffen the De- 

 gree of Tenfion and Force of the two Reins at the fime 

 time ', again I clofe my Hand not quite fo much, but fiiU 



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