80 PRINCIPLES OF P. IV, 



as they give greater power and efficacy to the 

 hand. 



A horse can move four different ways. He 

 can advance, turn to the right, to the left, 

 and stop or go back, but he cannot make 

 these different motions, unless the hand of 

 the rider permits him, by making four cor- 

 responding motions which answer to them. 

 Thus there are five different positions for the 

 hand. 



The first is that general position from which 

 proceed the other four. 



Section II. — The Five Positions when the Reins 

 are separate. 



When the reins are separate and one held in 

 each hand, the first position is that which has 

 been already given ; viz. the reins passing up 

 between the third and fourth fingers of each 

 hand, their ends being thrown over the fore 

 fingers, the thumbs closed on them, and the 



