70 



RIDING FOR LADIES. 



is, in my opinion, very rarely necessary ; and taking into 

 account the cruelty of it, I dislike it excessively, and 

 always cry it down. 



I saw a man in Cheshire, when the Empress of Austria 

 was hunting there, riding in a terrible bridle. He had a 

 strong, wiry rope-bit attached to the horns of an ordinary 

 snaffle — and it must have been frightfully severe, for the 



LIVERPOOL. — FOR HARNESS ONLY. 



horse's mouth was bleeding at both corners. I remarked 

 to the Kaiserin that it was no wonder she was anxious to 

 get away from that part of the country, if her sensitive eyes 

 were often thus shocked. She looked at the man — at the 

 horse — at the man again — and then said one word — 

 '' Brute ! " It was certainly expressive, and concise, — and 

 she spoke it in right sound English too, which I thought a 

 very good thing. 



