44 SIDE-SADDLES. 



between its bars (Fig. 21). Want of neatness 

 appears to have been the only cause of the abandon- 



Fig. 1 8. Capped stirrup-iron. 



Fig. 19. Slipper stirrup. 



Fig. 20. The Christie stirrup. 



ment of the capped stirrup, which is certainly safer 

 than any of its successors, the first ~ English one of 



