Q. Of what service is the rassembler?
A. To obtain without difficulty everything of a complicated nature in horsemanship.
Q. In what does the piaffer consist?
A. In the graceful position of the body and the harmonized precision of movement of the legs and feet.
Q. Is there more than one kind of piaffer?
A. Two; the slow and the precipitate.
Q. Which is to be preferred of these two?
A. The slow piaffer, since it is only when this is obtained that the equilibrium is perfect.
Q. Ought we to make a horse piaffe who will not bear the rassembler?
A. No; for that would be to step out of the logical gradation that alone can give certain results. Besides, the horse that has not been brought forward by this chain of principles would only execute with trouble and ungracefully what he ought to accomplish with pleasure and nobly.