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that men cannot be taught to ride without 

 sitting close and bumping, nor can they 

 ever rise well in stirrups until they have 

 got their balance, and been shaken into a 

 good seat, by riding for some months 

 without stirrups. Nevertheless all should 

 learn to rise. The following remarks were 

 made to the Aldershot Military Society by 

 the late General Keith Fraser, when 

 Inspector General of Cavalry : — " I believe 

 Nolan who fell at Balaclava, who was 

 one of the best cavalry soldiers that 

 ever lived, and knew all about horses, said 

 bobbing up and down would take more out 

 of a man in ten miles than rising in the 

 stirrup would do in fifty. I should like all 

 the men to be taught to rise in their 

 stirrups." The latter sentence was received 

 with applause at the time, and has now 

 been authoritatively endorsed.] 



MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING WITH 



STIRRUPS. 



[The seven motions by which the rider is 

 here taught to place himself on the horse's 

 back, although when the orders are read 

 or repeated they seem tedious and minute, 

 are nevertheless the best known means of 



