SPAHI, EQUIPPED FOR "FANTASIYA," MAKING HIS HORSE REAR 



rise is not horse-play or ugliness ; the rider is forcing the 

 animal to rear as an exhibition of horsemanship. This is 

 by no means the fine performance which the school re- 

 quires, but rather a crude and shallow trick, common at 

 the fantaslyas or liorse-parties, where all the riders of the 

 neighborhood meet to show off tlieir steeds and to let off 

 superfluous steam. The shawl hanging over the croup is 

 the drapery usual at this ceremony- All ceremonials, an- 



