74 IN THE HIDING-SCHOOL. 



Esmeralda was his pupil, and he would have 

 taken the whole centennial quadrille and all the 

 cabinet ladies to point his moral, had he seen 

 them making equestrian blunders. "Where 

 your horse has been, where he is, is the past. 

 Look to the future, straight before you." 



" The cavalryman looked back just now," 

 Esmeralda ventured to say. 



" Yes, but he turned his horse very slightly 

 to do it, and he may do almost anything, because 

 he has a perfect seat, and is a good horseman." 



" Suppose I hear something or somebody 

 coming up behind me ? " 



" If it have any intelligence, it will not hurt 

 you. If it have none, looking will do you no 

 good. Turn out to the right as far as you 

 can and look to the front harder than ever, so 

 as to be ready to guide your horse and to 

 avoid any obstacles in case he should start 

 to run. What is the trouble with the ladies, 

 now? " 



"O, dear!" cried the beauty to the society 

 young lady, "your horse." 



" What's the matter with him ? " asked the 

 other, still very stately and not turning. 



