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illustrate : Two New York women, 

 mother and daughter, took a trip or 

 some three hundred miles over the 

 pathless Wind River Mountains. The 

 mother rode astride, but the daughter 

 preferred to exhibit her Durland Acad- 

 emy accomplishment, and rode side- 

 saddle, according to the fashion set by 

 an artful queen to hide her deformity. 

 The advantages of health, youth and 

 strength were all with the daughter; 

 yet in every case on that long march it 

 was the daughter who gave out first 

 and compelled the pack train to halt 

 while she and her horse rested. And 

 the daughter was obliged to change 

 from one horse to another, while the 

 same horse was able to carry the mother, 

 a slightly heavier woman, through the 

 trip. And the back of the horse which 

 the daughter had ridden chiefly was in 



