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PRINCIPLES OF 



P. VIII. 



When both curb and snaffle reins are held 

 in the last and more usual method, you shift 

 them into the right hand (after turning the 

 left thumb towards the right), by putting the 

 fore finger of the right hand into the place of 

 the little finger of the left, the second finger 

 of the right into the place of the third finger 

 of the left, and the third finger of the right 

 into the place of the second finger of the left, 

 placing the reins smoothly through the right 

 hand, with the ends hanging down. 



Thus you have every rein separate in the 

 right hand. 



When you shift them again to the left, put 

 the fingers of the left hand into the places you 

 took them from. 



When you are handy and expert at this, 

 your reins will never be in disorder. 



The shifting of the reins is principally in- 

 tended to relieve the left hand when cramped 



