188 IN THE RIDING-SCHOOL. 



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halt under the trees by the roadside, gives op- 

 portunity to remove the dust from the face and 

 to cool the hands, and the cologne is much 

 better than the handkerchief " dipped in the 

 pellucid waters of a rippling brook," a la novel- 

 ist, for the pellucid brook of Massachusetts is 

 very likely to run past a leather factory, in 

 which case its waters are anything but agree- 

 able. Whether or not your habit shall have a 

 pocket is a matter of choice. If it have one, it 

 should be small and should be on the left side, 

 just beyond the three flat buttons which fasten 

 the front breadth and side breadth of your habit 

 together at the waist. When thus placed, you 

 can easily reach it with either hand. 



Fitting the habit over the knee is a feat not 

 to be effected by an amateur without a pattern, 

 and the proper slope and adjustment of the 

 breadths come by art, not chance ; but Har- 

 per's Bazar patterns are easily obtained by mail. 

 The best tailors adjust the skirt while the wearer 

 sits on a side saddle, and there is no really good 

 substitute for this, for, although one may guess 

 fairly well at the fit of the knee, nothing but 

 actual trial will show whether or not, when in 



