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removed, and the place kept moist with cloths dipped in a 

 lotion composed of tincture of arnica two ounces, and water 

 one pint. Soft nourishing food must be given, but no 

 medicine on any account whatever — the restoration to 

 finish with liquid blistering of a judicious kind. 



The safest Arrangement for Side Saddles, to 

 avoid risk of being hung up, or dragged after a fall, is that 

 adopted with " the level seat saddle," by Messrs. Nicholls of 

 Jermyn Street. They have patented a bar for the stirrup 

 leather, extremely simple in construction, and which will 

 instantly disconnect it, should a rider have the misfortune 

 to get her foot caught when falling over the off-side of 

 the saddle. An elastic safety-band, stretched across the 

 heads, will, when a fall occurs, prevent the habit catching 

 on the saddle, — and the unpleasant predicament of a horse 

 galloping about, with his rider suspended by the skirt, 

 head downwards (as witnessed sometimes in the huntino-- 

 field), will be avoided. 



Take a Pistol with you on all occasions when going to 

 hunt, and in case of hopeless injury occurring to your 

 mount, make use of it, with all the quietness and celerity 

 you can command. Horses, when left to themselves, 

 rarely meet with mishaps ; it is, therefore, only fair 

 that their riders should protect them against unnecessary 

 torture. 



Ladies' Spurs. — I have pleasure in appending sketches 

 of the only three of these — that I know of — that are manu- 

 factured for ladies' use. The Sewarrow is, I think excel- 



