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leather bit, thick, but only wide enough to fit his little 

 mouth, its rings large, and protected by leather 

 circles that it may not pull through. Let your man 

 now lead him, and do you drive him, applying proper 

 pressure to turn him right, left, and to stop and back. 

 In a day or two — this process will have already con- 

 sumed five or six days — you should take him into 

 a yard, or other small enclosure where you can be 

 alone, and there put him through all the manoeuvres 

 described, driving but not leading him ; a check of 

 the " side " variety, but having its loops placed high 

 on the crowii-pieces, being now imposed, just short 

 enough for him to feel, if he hangs his head very 

 low. This may be taken up by degrees until he gives 

 to it and has to carry his head steadily, but at every 

 lesson it should be easy at starting and tightened 

 only after his neck muscles have become warm and 

 well flexed, when he can yield to it easily ; and. after 

 his last lesson each day, he should, on returning to 

 his box, be checked up a few holes higher and left to 

 bend himself for ten minutes or so, akuays caressing 

 jaw and neck when the bridle is removed. Never 



