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little leap sitting on a side saddle," and, going 

 out, he takes Nell's horse, and in a minute you 

 see him sailing through the air, light as a bird, 

 and without any of the encouraging shouts used 

 by some horsemen. It is only a little leap, but 

 it impresses your illogical minds as no skilful- 

 ness in the voltes and no haute hole airs could 

 do, for leaping is the crowning accomplishment 

 of riding in the eyes of all your male friends 

 except the cavalryman, and when he returns to 

 the reception room, you linger in the hope of a 

 little lecture, and you are not disappointed. 



"My young ladies," he says, "at the point at 

 which you are in the equestrian art, what you 

 should do is to keep doing what you know, 

 over and over again, no matter if you do it 

 wrong. Keep doing and doing, and by and by 

 you will do it right. I have tried that plan 

 of perfecting each step before undertaking an- 

 other, but it is of no use with American ladies. 

 You will not do things at all, unless you can do 

 them well, you say. That is as if you were to 

 go to a ball, and were to say, ' No, I have taken 

 lessons, I have danced in school, but I am afraid 

 I cannot do so well as some others. I will not 



