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the material for which should not cost you more 

 than two dollars and a half. Harper's Bazar 

 has published two or three patterns, following 

 which any dressmaker can make a skirt quite 

 good enough for the ring. A jersey, a Norfolk 

 jacket, a simple street jacket or even an ordi- 

 nary basque waist ; any small, close-fitting hat, 

 securely pinned to your hair, and very loose 

 gloves will complete a dress quite suitable for 

 private lessons, and not so expensive that you 

 need grudge the swift destruction certain to 

 come to all equestrian costumes. Nothing is 

 more ludicrous than to see a rider clothed in a 

 correct habit, properly scant and unhemmed, to 

 avoid all risks while taking fences and hedges 

 in a hunting country, with her chimney-pot hat 

 and her own gold-mounted crop, her knowing 

 little riding-boots and buckskins, with outfit 

 enough for Baby Blake and Di Vernon and Lady 

 Gay Spanker, and to see that young woman 

 dancing in her saddle, now here and now there, 

 clinging to the pommel, pulling at the reins in 

 a manner to make a rocking-horse rear, and 

 squealing tearfully and jerkily : " Oh, ho-ho-oh, 

 wh-h-hat m-m-makes h-h-him g-g-go s-s-s-so ? " 



