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railed turns to the Right, you by this means fhorten your 

 Left Rein ; it is this Left therefore that turns and guides the 

 Horfe to the Right : Would you go to the Left, pafs to the 

 £fth Pofition, you will carry the Back of your Hand to the 

 Left, fo that your Nails will be turned down a little, your 

 Thumb will be to the Rirrht, and the Little-finger to the 

 Left ; this will fliorten the right Rein^ and the right Rein 

 determines your Horfe to the Left. 



I HAVE already fud, that the Effect which the Mouth- 

 piece has upon the Bars, and the Curb upon the Beard, 

 depends upon the Branches of the Bitt ; when the Branches 

 rife or are turned upwards, the Mouth-piece finks, and when 

 the Branches fink, the Mouth-piece rifes ; fo that when your 

 Horfe is going ftrait forward, if you keep your Hand low 

 and clofc to your Body, the Mouth-piece then preffes ftrong 

 upon the Bars, and the Chain or Curb having, in confe- 

 quence more Liberty, ads lefs upon the Beard ; on the 

 contrary, if you keep your Hand high, a little forward, 

 and confequently a little out of the Line of the End of the 

 Branches, the Mouth-piece then finks, and the Branches of 

 necelfity operate upon the Curb, which prefixes then very 

 ftrongly upon the Beard ; now, in order to place, and to bring 

 in your Horfe's.Head, you mufi: hold your Hand low, and 

 in order to raife and lighten a Horfe that weighs upon the 

 Hand, and carries his Head too low, you muft advance your 

 Hand a little, and keep it high. 



Would you have your Horfe go backward ? Come to the 



third Pofition, but take care to round your Wrift exactly, 



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