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in order to learn the management. However, 

 you came mainly for enjoyment to-night, I think. 

 Go and ride some more." 



And you obey, and you have the enjoyment, 

 and when you go to the dressing-room, it is with 

 a feeling of perfect indifference to the gallery 

 critics, and when you come down, ready for the 

 street, you have a little gossip with the master. 



This is the only kind of music ride, he tells 

 you, practicable for riders of widely varying abil- 

 ity, but the ordinary circus is but a poor display of 

 horsemanship compared to what may be seen in 

 some private evening classes in this country, or 

 in military schools. There are groups of riders in 

 Boston and in New York, friends who have long 

 practised together, who can dance the lancers 

 and Virginia reels as easily on horseback as on 

 foot, and who can ride at the ring as well as 

 Lord Lindesay himself, or as well as the pretty 

 English girls who amuse themselves with the 

 sport in India. 



"Just think," you sigh, "to be able to make 

 your horse go forward and back, and to move in 

 a circle, a little bit of a circle, and to do it all 

 exactly in time ! Oh ! " 



