IN THE BIDING-SCHOOL. 89 



know that they were pointing outward. Your 

 right shoulder told the story by drooping for- 

 ward. M. de Bussigny lays especial stress on 

 this point in his manual, and you will find that 

 your whole position depends more on that seem- 

 ingly unimportant right foot than on many 

 other things, so bend your will to holding it 

 properly, close against the saddle. Walk on 

 now, keeping on a straight line. If you cannot 

 do it in the school, you cannot on the road, and 

 many an ugly scrape against walls, horse-cars 

 and other horses you will receive unless you 

 can keep to the right and in a straight line. 

 Now turn to the left, and go straight across 

 the school. Straight ! Fix your eye on some- 

 thing when you start, and ride at it with as 

 much determination as if it were a fence ; now 

 turn to the right again and go forward. Have 

 you read Delsarte ? " 



No, you murmur to yourself, you have not 

 read Delsarte, and, if you had, you do not believe 

 that you could remember it or anything else 

 just at present. What an endless string of 

 directions ! You wish that there was another 

 pupil with you to take the burden of a few of 



