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difficulty with your lady pupil, and by 

 riding alongside on the off and getting her 

 to keep turning her head towards you, 

 and throwing her left shoulder forward, 

 she will soon sit square. A lady should 

 not make any endeavour to throw herself 

 either backward or forward in leaping, 

 and it is well to just get her to take 

 hold of her saddle behind with her right 

 hand (just linking the fingers under 

 will suffice) ; then, after the first fence 

 or two, she will go like one o'clock. 

 I remember one of my girls going through 

 quite a good run first time she ever 

 jumped a fence ; and last season I taught 

 a lady to ride, and the sixth time she 

 was ever in the saddle she followed me 

 with the hounds and jumped quite 

 twenty fences. 



It is quite extraordinary the idea some 

 novices have of the simplicity of jumping 



