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VIII. 



DIVISION OF THE WORK. 



I HAVE developed all the means to be em- 

 in completing the horse s education ; 

 it remains for me to say how the horseman 

 should divide his work, in order to con 

 nect the different exercises, and pass by de 

 grees from the simple to the more compli 

 cated. 



Two months of work, consisting of two les 

 sons a day of a half hour each that is to 

 say, one hundred and twenty lessons, will be 

 amply sufficient to bring the greenest horse 

 to perform regularly all the preceding exer 

 cises. I hold that two short lessons a day, 

 one in the morning, the other in the after 

 noon, are necessary to obtain good results. 



We disgust a young horge by keeping 

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