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have fixed days and hours for their lessons, and 

 others allow the very largest liberty. For your 

 own sake it is better to have a regular time for 

 your lessons, but if you cannot manage to do 

 so, do not complain if you sometimes have to 

 wait a few minutes for your horse, or for your 

 master. 



The school is not carried on entirely for 

 your benefit, although you will at first assume 

 that it is. As a rule, a single lesson will cost 

 two dollars, but a ten-lesson ticket will cost but 

 fifteen dollars, a twenty-lesson ticket twenty- 

 five dollars, and a ticket for twenty exercise 

 rides twenty dollars. In schools which give 

 music-rides, there are special rates for the even- 

 ings upon which they take place, but you need 

 not think of music-rides until you have had at 

 least the three lessons which you desire. 



Buy your ticket before you go to the dressing- 

 room, and ask if you may have a key to a locker. 

 Dress as quickly as you can, and if there be no 

 maid in the dressing-room, lock up your street 

 clothing and keep your key. If there be a 

 maid, she will attend to this matter, and will 

 assist you in putting on your skirt, showing you 



