I04 RIDING FOR LADIES. 



will be able to ride quite as easily without the stirrup as 

 with it — and surely, even were it to involve a month's hard 

 labour, the result would prove ample remuneration. If you 

 mean to be a huntress, there will assuredly be days when 

 your hardly-earned accomplishment will stand you in good 

 stead, for never yet was there a straight-going lady who did 

 not at some time or another break a stirrup leather, or lose 

 one, or find herself in some way or another deprived, 

 through accident, of the support to which so many horse- 

 women unfortunately trust. It often happens, too, that the 

 misfortune occurs at a provokingly long distance from 

 home, and miles away, perhaps, from any place where 

 repairs can be executed ; therefore, the advantage (in this 

 respect alone) of learning to ride without a stirrup must 

 be at once apparent : to say nothing of the great benefits 

 derivable from having taught yourself complete indepen- 

 dence of any support from it — a thing which always ensures 

 an erect and perfect seat. 



FAULTS IN STYLE. 



