224 PRINCIPLES OF P. VII. 



that you may not put yourself in an awkward 

 situation, which through inattention you may 

 do, without the design of the horse. 



Yet it frequently happens, that restive 

 horses try their utmost to get into these situa- 

 tions, by sidling to other horses, carriages, 

 walls, rails, the foot pavement, the houses, 

 &c. &c. 



It is natural for persons to pull the horse 

 from the object that he makes for ; but this 

 gives a determined horse the completest op- 

 portunity of accomplishing his intention, and 

 some restive horses would be always crushing 

 your knee against a wall, if you had not the 

 means to prevent him. 



Whenever, then, you find the horse so dis- 

 posed, instead of pulling him from the wall, 

 bend his head to it, by which the side of the 

 horse next the wall is in a concave position, 

 which prevents his utmost endeavours from 

 doing you an injury. 



