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In ninety-nine out of every hundred cases they are 

 met with on the off-side in the lady's, and on the near- 

 side in the gentleman's horse, thereby proving that for 

 the most part the seat is not straight and square in 

 either. 



No one but a saddler of the very highest reputation 

 should be trusted to manufacture a lady's saddle, or 

 continual annoyance will be the result, by the saddle 

 being fully six months out of the first twelve in the 

 unscientific hands of the maker, for the purpose of un- 

 dergoinff a thousand and one alterations, the causes 

 for which should never have existed. 



Two good saddles are sufficient for any lady — one 

 for a broad and round horse, and the other for a narrow 

 and flat-sided one. 



Great care should be taken by the lady that the 

 proper saddles be put on the proper horses, or mis- 

 chievous results will be sure to follow, both with re- 

 gard to the horses and saddles. This is, of course, 

 the proper business of grooms, but they are too apt, 

 when full of work, to put on whichever saddle happens 

 to be cleaned and properly adjusted at the time, with- 

 out the slightest consideration or reference to its suit- 

 ability to the horse in question. 



THE COVERT HACK. 



Most men expect the covert hack to take them from 

 five to twenty-five miles to meet hounds, at from ten 

 to eighteen miles an hour, and at this pace he may 

 have to go up to his hocks in mud, or on a road as hard 



