192 IN THE RIDING-SCHOOL. 



dangerous, sometimes preventing the rider from 

 placing her foot in the stirrup, sometimes mak- 

 ing her lose it at a critical moment. Whether 

 breeches, tights or trousers are worn, they must 

 be loose at the knee, or trotting will be impossi- 

 ble, and the rider will feel as if bound to the 

 second pommel, and will sometimes be unable 

 to rise at all. 



As to gloves, the choice lies between the 

 warm antelope skin mousquetairesat two dollars 

 a pair, and the tan-colored kid gauntlets at the 

 same price. The former are most comfortable 

 for winter, the latter for summer, and neither 

 can be too large. Nobody was ever ordered out 

 for execution for wearing black gloves, although 

 they are unusual, and now and then one sees a 

 woman, whose soul is set on novelty, gorgeous 

 in yellow cavalry gauntlets, or even with white 

 dragoon gauntlets, making her look like a badly 

 focused photograph. 



Lastly, as to the hat. What shall it be, 

 Esmeralda ? 



No tuft of grass-green plumes for you, like 

 Queen Guinevere's, nor yet the free flowing 

 feather to be seen in so many beautiful old 



