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ACCIDENTS. 



hand has on the piano that counts, not the bang, and so it is 

 in managing a horse. A horse seems to know when a rider 

 is nervous and rarely fails to take advantage of it ; that is the 

 reason that a horse that acts like a brute with one person will 

 go like a lamb for another. 



THE HANDS. 



ACCIDENTS. 



Some of the most serious accidents that have happened to 

 women riding have been caused by their being thrown off to 

 the right of their horse and hanging by skirt or stirrup. 



If a horse shies to the right one should immediately throw 

 one's weight over to the left, this brings the legs into posi- 

 tion on the pommels and gets one again in balance, whereas if 



