32 IN THE BIDING-SCHOOL. 



he calmly obeys what the reins tell him and goes 

 straight forward. Then your master offers to 

 help you by lifting you, grasping your right arm 

 with his left hand, and you make one or two 

 more circuits of the ring, and then the hour is 

 over and you dismount and go to the dressing- 

 room. 



Tired, Esmeralda ? A little, and you do won- 

 der whether you shall not be a bruised piece of 

 humanity to-morrow. Not if your flesh be as 

 hard as any girl's should be in these days of 

 gymnasiums, but if you have managed to bruise 

 a muscle or to strain one, lay a bottle of hot 

 water against it when you go to bed and it will 

 not be painful in the morning. If, in spite of 

 warnings, you have been so careless about your 

 underclothing as to cause a blister, a bit of 

 muslin saturated with vaseline, with a drop of 

 tincture of benzoin rubbed into it, makes a 

 plaster which will end the smart instantly. 



This is not a physician's prescription, but is 

 that of a horseman who for years led the best 

 riding class in Boston, and it is asserted that 

 nobody was ever known to be dissatisfied with 

 its effects. Muffle yourself warmly, Esmeralda, 



