MODERN RIDING. 



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The horse never can perform any of these 

 actions without an entire agreement of all 

 these aids, and one single motion of the body 

 will be sufficient to unite them all with the 

 utmost exactness. In effect, instead of car- 

 rying your hand out, and seconding that aid 

 with the leg, turn your body, but impercep- 

 tibly, towards the corner, just as if you 

 intended to go into it yourself ; your body 

 then turning to the right or left, your hand, 

 which is one of its appurtenances, must 

 necessarily turn likewise, and the leg of the 

 side on which you turn will infallibly press 

 against the horse and aid him. If you would 

 come out of the corner, turn your body again, 

 your hand will follow it, and your other leg 

 approaching the horse, will put his croupe 

 into the corner, in such a manner, that it will 

 follow the shoulders, and be upon the same 

 line. 



It is by these means that you will be 

 enabled to time the aids of the hand and legs 

 with greater exactness than you could do, 

 were you not to move your body ; for how 



