TO BEND THE NECK TO EIGHT AND LEFT. 



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soon he will take the idea, and you will bring his head 

 around until it faces backward, being careful to keep it 

 always exactly perpendicular, and not to allow the horse 

 to move it of his own accord in any direction. 



Now try to obtain this flexion with the right-hand 

 rein alone, only using the left hand to assist it if he fails 



" PULLING THE HANDS STEADILY APART." 



to understand or to obey, and also to bring back the head 

 to its original position. 



To bend the neck to the left requires simply a rever- 

 sal of the process just described, and will give you prob- 

 ably no trouble. Do not be satisfied with anything else 

 than an easy, graceful, and patient obedience on the part 

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