IN THE RIDING-SCHOOL. 



I. 



Impatient to mount and ride. 



Longfellow. 



ND you want to learn how to ride, 

 ^fyt\ Esmeralda ? 

 Rw™^n Why ? Because ? Reason good 

 and sufficient, Esmeralda ; to require 

 anything more definite would be brutal, although 

 an explanation of your motives would render 

 the task of directing you much easier. 



As you are an American, it is reasonable to 

 presume that you desire to learn quickly; as 

 you are youthful, it is certain that you earnestly 

 wish to look pretty in the saddle, and as you are 

 a youthful American, there is not a shadow of 

 a doubt that your objections to authoritative 

 teaching will be almost unconquerable, and that 

 you will insist upon being treated, from the very 

 beginning, as if your small head contained the 



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