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VIII. 



DIVISION OF THE WORK. 



I HAVE developed all the means to be em- 

 ployed 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 horse by keeping 

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