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Section III. — Of Corrections. 



Corrections are of two sorts. You may 

 punish a horse with the spurs, the switch, or 

 chambriere ; you may punish him by keeping 

 him in a greater degree of subjection. In all 

 cases, a real horseman will endeavour rather 

 to work upon the understanding of the crea- 

 ture, than upon the different parts of his 

 body. 



In reality, the corrections which reduce a 

 horse to the greatest obedience, and which 

 yet dishearten him the least, are such as are 

 not severe ; but such as oppose him in what 

 he wants to do, by restraining and putting 

 him to do directly the contrary. If your 

 horse do not advance, or go off readily, or if 

 he be sluggish, make him go sideways, some- 

 times to one hand, sometimes to the other ; 

 drive him forward, and so alter alternately. 

 If he go forward too fast, being extremely 

 quick of feeling, moderate your aids, and 



