THE LADY'S HORSS. 



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the last, which has been described in The Field, and 

 which looks useful if it will promise to keep in order 

 and never let the foot out at the wrong time. For hunt- 

 ing, the side-saddle must have a breastplate. With one 

 the girths need not be so tight, which is rather an 

 object. If a felt saddle-cloth can be so managed as not, 



under any circumstances, to show, it will be found useful, 

 a lady's sideways seat being highly conducive to sore 

 backs. Of course the horse should not be singed under 

 the saddle ; but this point is conceded in most men's 

 stables now. The saddle must be looked to, as to its 

 stuffing and panelling, just twice as often as a man's 

 saddle. 



