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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 of^ 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 



