200 IN THE RIDING-SCHOOL. 



the American who fancies himself desirous of 

 being taught. " Perhaps you will learn, but will 

 — I — teach — you ? You can ride ? " 



"A little." 



"Very well! Mount that horse, and ride 

 around the ring." 



Away went the pupil, doing his best, but be- 

 fore he had traversed two sides of the school, 

 the master shouted to the horse, and the pupil 

 was sitting in the tan. He picked himself up, 

 and returned to the mounting-stand, saying : 

 " Will you tell me how to stay on next time ? " 



" I will," cried the Hungarian in a small 

 ecstasy ; " and I will make a rider of you ! " 

 And he did, too, and certainly took as much 

 pleasure as his pupil in the long course of 

 instruction which followed, and in the resultant 

 proficiency. 



In European riding-schools for ladies, there 

 is, of course, no resort to corporal punishment, 

 but there is none of that careful abstention from 

 telling disagreeable truths which popular igno- 

 rance exacts from American teachers in all 

 schools, except in the military and naval acade- 

 mies. Indeed, the need of it is hardly felt, for 



