132 PRINCIPLES OF P. V. 



When the pupil rides with this animation 

 and spirit, which cannot be expected for some 

 time, the lessons must be proportionably short. 

 If we ride a horse to the height of his ani- 

 mation, though he were in regular exercise 

 and the best condition, he would be so heated 

 in ten minutes, that humanity would say — 

 " Stop; let the horse take breath, and reco- 

 ver himself." 



This, in horsemanship, is called a reprise ; 

 and two such breathings is sufficient for any 

 horse to do in one day; for the moderate 

 riding of a horse twenty miles on the road 

 would not be more distressing, nor reduce 

 his condition so much, as riding two such 

 reprises. 



Plate XIV. illustrates the Trot. 



