84 HACKS AND HUNTERS 



them. We would undoubtedly be more sensibly 

 clothed if we did not run around in low-necked evening 

 dresses in the winter, and yet who among us would 

 abandon them on the score of comfort or safety? 

 Why, therefore, shouldn't women be willing to submit 

 to the few very slight inconveniences of the side- 

 saddle in order to look graceful, feminine, and lady- 

 like, instead of like a vulgar, badly shaped and knock- 

 kneed man. 



