not obliged to teach it to the horse, in order, later on, to complete his high school education by pirouettes on three legs, the Spanish trot, and the canter on three legs. For this, it is of the utmost necessity that the breaker can obtain, at will, extension of the legs, and especially by the spurs, which is the only means of keeping a horse in equilibrium, of teaching him to go up to his bit, and of making him hold his legs as high and as extended as he ought to do.

There is, alas ! another way for teaching a horse the Spanish walk, and I hasten to say that I never use this method of which I am obliged to speak, because it is greatly in vogue among the new school. By this term I designate the riding masters who have sprung up since the death of Baucher, and who have substituted for the school movements he executed most brilliantly, a series of strange contortions obtained by a host of accessories, the employment of which necessitates the assistance of a large number of men.

To teach the Spanish walk according to the method of the new school, it is necessary to employ an entire squad of breakers — four privates and a corporal : never less, and often more.

They begin by placing on each fore leg a hobble, to which is attached a cord, each cord being held by a man. A third person holds the bridle and a cutting whip. The corporal mounts the animal, and a fifth tormenter has the noble mission of flourishing a driving whip. We will now see the collective operations which the squad performs on the unfortunate animal.

No. 3, who has the cutting whip, taps the left leg of the horse with it. No. 1, who holds the cord of that leg, pulls the leg straight, and the corporal, who is on the back of the animal, presses his right leg against the horse's side so as to accustom him to extend his leg on being touched by the spur.