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PRINCIPLES OF 



P. III. 



By these two extremes may be understood, 

 first, where the horse is disunited ; and last, 

 where he is too much united. The interme- 

 diate consequence and effect of the hand and 

 heel must be acquired by practice. 



Section IV. — Of the Qualities of the Hand. 



There are many properties requisite to con- 

 stitute a masterly hand. That is called a 

 masterly hand, which is not only well formed 

 in itself by tuition, and riding manege horses, 

 but can make the untutored mouth partake of 

 the sensibility of the hand, which, in other 

 terms, is dressing the horse. 



Three qualities are essentially necessary to 

 such a hand. It ought to be firm, gentle, and 

 light. 



I. That may be called a firm or steady 

 hand whose feeling corresponds exactly with 

 the feeling in the horse's mouth. This de- 

 mands a certain degree of steadiness, and 

 constitutes that just correspondence between 



