Falls, 53 



courage necessary to face the perils encountered 

 in a stiff country. 



If a man or woman, especially the latter, gets 

 a fall, they should remount at once, if physically 

 able; a loss of nerve at this stage is seldom re- 

 gained, and there is no better way to avoid it 

 than by resuming the saddle immediately. 



My wife received an ugly fall from a high- 

 spirited horse and was so completely unnerved 

 that, though completely uninjured, she could not 

 be induced to remount. The consequence was 

 she has never to this day regained nerve enough 

 for the field; and while before she would keep 

 her horse stabled for days to make him high spir- 

 ited and restive, she now renounces all but an old 

 family riding horse. 



I can not recall ever having heard any one 

 describe the feelings experienced in their first 

 cropper, but I shall never forget my own. I felt 

 as though I were flying through space and would 

 never reach the ground. My first thought on 

 landing was, in fact I am not certain but that I 

 audibly expressed it in the words, ''Well, that 

 was not so bad." 



Saddle courage should not be confounded with 

 recklessness and dare-deviltry. They are as 

 widely separated as the poles. The former is 

 as much to be admired as the latter is to be con- 

 demned. 



