144 IN THE BID1NG-SCH00L. 



then you begin to fall behind. Touching your 

 Abdallah lightly with whip and heel starts him 

 into a trot, and coming up beside Nell you 

 start off her Arab, and both horses are rather 

 astonished to be checked. What do these girls 

 want, they think, and when you fall behind again, 

 it takes two strokes of the whip to urge Abdal- 

 lah forward, Arab is unmoved by your passing 

 him, and you find the breadth of the ring divid- 

 ing you and Nell. You pause, she turns to the 

 right, crosses the space between you, turns again 

 and is by your side, and now both of you begin to 

 see what you must do. Nell, who is riding on the 

 inside, that is to say on the included square, must 

 check her horse very slightly after turning each 

 corner, and you must hasten yours a little before 

 turning, and a little after, so as to give her suffi- 

 cient space to turn, and, at the same time, to keep 

 up with her. You, being on her left, must be very 

 careful every moment to have a firm hold of 

 your left rein, so as to keep away from her feet, 

 and she must keep especial watch of her right 

 rein in order to guard herself. 



After each of you has learned her part pretty 

 well, you should exchange places and try again, 



