MODERN RIDING. 



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outward stirrup, and keep your outward leg 

 nearer the side of the horse than the other 

 leg, taking care to do it so as not to be per- 

 ceived. If you go to the right, keep your 

 bridle hand a little on the outside of the 

 horse's neck, turning your little finger up 

 without turning your nails at the same time ; 

 although, if need be, you must turn them, in 

 order to make the inner rein work, which 

 passes over the little finger. Keep your arms 

 and elbows to your hips ; for, by this means, 

 you will assure and confine your hand, which 

 ought to accompany, and, if I may so say, 

 run along the line of the circle with the 

 horse. 



Plate XXIII. illustrates this pace. 



The like changes and airs, which are 

 wrought in the last lesson, may be performed 

 in this • namely, the long change, demi- volts, 

 change reversed, volts, Sec. 



