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THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. 



[1825 



lady riding to covert. It is not unusual now to see as 

 many as twenty-five ladies out liunting, mounted, and quite 

 as many more driving in carriages, and seeing as much as 

 they can of a day's hunting. The invention of the third 

 pommel has made all the difference in the way the fair 

 sex now ride to hounds, and it will surprise many of our 

 modern Dianas to learn that the late Mrs. Forteseue, and 

 many other fine horsewomen, rode across countrj^, not at 

 this period indeed, but about twenty years later, with 



ONLY ONE CRUTCH, 



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