20 ffl THE HIDING-SCHOOL. 



daughter to riding-school to talk volubly and 

 ioudly, she will become a nuisance, and even a 

 source of actual danger, by distracting the at- 

 tention of the master from his pupils, and the 

 attention of the pupils from their horses, to say 

 nothing of the possibility that some of her 

 pretty, ladylike little screams of, " Oh, darling, 

 I know you're tired ! " " Don't you want to dis- 

 mount, dear?" or, " Oh, what a horrid horse; 

 see him jump ! " may really frighten some lucky 

 animal whose acquaintance has included no 

 women but the sensible. 



If she be inclined to laugh at the awkward 

 beginners, and to ridicule them audibly — but 

 really, Esmeralda, it should not be necessary to 

 consider such an action, impossible in a well- 

 bred woman, unlikely in a woman of good feel- 

 ing ! Leave your mother, if not at home, in the 

 dressing-room or the reception room, and go to 

 the mounting-stand alone. 



In some schools you may ride at any time, 

 but the usual morning hours for ladies' lessons 

 are from nine o'clock until noon, and the after- 

 noon hours from two o'clock until four. 



Some masters prefer that their pupils should 



