142 IN THE BIDING-SCHOOI. 



afraid of him. You should pick up your reins 

 with easy grace, and having twisted them into 

 a hopeless snarl, should explain to any specta- 

 tor who may presume to smile that one " very 

 soon forgets these little things, you know, but 

 they will come back in a little while." 



Having started, you must choose between 

 steadily trotting or rapidly cantering, absolutely 

 regardless of the rights or wishes of any one 

 else, or you must hold your horse to a spiritless 

 crawl, carefully keeping him in such a position 

 as to prevent anybody else from outspeeding 

 you. If you were a man, you would feel it in- 

 cumbent upon you to entreat your master to 

 permit you to change horses with him, and 

 would give him certain valuable information, 

 derived from quarters vaguely specified as "a 

 person who knows," or " a man who rides a 

 great deal," meaning somebody who is in the 

 saddle twenty times a year, and duly pays his 

 livery stable bill for the privilege, and you 

 would confide to some other exercise rider, if 

 possible, in the hearing of seven or eight pupils, 

 that your master was not much of a rider after 

 all, that the "natural rider was the best," and 



