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PRINCIPLES OP 



P. IX. 



you from the saddle, a greater proportion of 

 your weight will be received in the stirrups, 

 by which you ease your return to the saddle. 



Now a horse leads with one or the other 

 foot in the trot, the same as in the gallop, 

 and the feet beat the time of one, two. The 

 foot which the horse leads with, determines 

 the one you are to rise to, and you cannot 

 change the order if you would by rising to 

 the contrary ; but if the horse change his foot 

 you are necessitated to change with him, till 

 which your time is broken and you are dis- 

 united; so that you rise and fall with his 

 leading foot, which, beating the time of two, 

 you rise at one, the leading foot being in the 

 air, and fall at two when it comes to the 

 ground. 



Thus the horse renders it perfectly easy to 

 you by raising the body and marking the 

 time, which, if you do not counteract by any 

 endeavours or efforts of your own, you soon 

 fall into. 



