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PRINCIPLES OF 



P. IV. 



Section III. — The Five Positions when the Beins 

 are not separate. 



When both reins are held in one hand, these 

 rules are modified as follows : — 



First, let the hand be held three fingers 

 breadth from the body, as high as the elbow, 

 in such a manner that the joint of the little 

 finger is upon a right line with the tip of the 

 elbow ; — let the wrist be sufficiently rounded, 

 so that the knuckles may be kept directly 

 above the neck of the horse ; — let the nails be 

 exactly opposite the body, the little finger 

 nearer to it than the others, the thumb quite 

 flat upon the reins, which must be separated 

 by putting the little finger between them, the 

 right rein lying upon it. This is the first and 

 general position. 



Would you have your horse go forward? 

 Yield to him your hand ; and for that pur- 

 pose turn your nails downwards, in such a 



