104 PRINCIPLES OF P. V. 



the cause. You will find your animation 

 somewhere above the walk ; for, though you 

 do not animate with whip, legs, or tongue, 

 yet your hand, or even your body, may be 

 too animating, when added to the natural spi- 

 rits and vivacity of the horse. The hand, if 

 too high or confining, is too animating for 

 the walk : the body, if braced too firm, or as 

 might be necessary in the trot, would also be 

 too animating in the walk ; for as the horse 

 is, so must the rider be. 



The rider must practise the walk to both 

 hands, by crossing over in the long change. 

 Let us therefore consider that and turns in 

 general. 



Plate X. illustrates the Walk. 



