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been performed. If the exercise be varied and 

 highly animated, the horse should rest to recruit 

 himself; at the expiration of twelve or fifteen mi- 

 nutes when refreshed, by halting, he may be made 

 to go through another of the same, or rather less 

 duration, and then be put up for the day. It would 

 be still better to make two halts in the same space 

 of time ; — the exercise taken in such a lesson being 

 equal to three hours' moderate work. When the 

 lessons are less animated, they may be made pro- 

 portionally longer ; but, it is always better, if the 

 pupil err in this respect, to .do so on the side of 

 brevity, than, by making her lessons too long, to 

 harass her horse. 



