12 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



reverse. " 'Ead and 'eart 'igh, 'eels and ands 

 low," as the old riding-master used to .say to us; 

 or as sometimes when a timid girl in the school 

 was crouching on her horse, " Now then, Miss, 

 sit up and look to yer front, there's money bid 

 for yer." Both these maxims being sound and 

 easily remembered, I recommend them to aspi- 

 rants of both sexes. 



1 have already said that the grip should be 

 from the inside of the thighs, that of the calves 

 being in reserve, for it must be understood that 

 this is also one of the means of o-uidinor or even 

 of coercing your horse. But while you ride 

 quiet horses regularly every day, it is well not 

 always to ride the same. If the beginner be 

 livino- in or near a town where there is a o-ood 

 livery stable, let him hire the horses and ride all 

 those fairly trustworthy in turn. Nothing is so 

 good practice for the rider after the elements of 

 the art have been mastered as riding on different 

 horses. This gives to the horseman the power 

 of accommodating himself to various paces, 

 and greatly increases his strength and adapt- 

 ability in the saddle. After a week or two of 

 this, care and attention will begin to tell, and 

 the exercise strenothenino- the ridincr muscles, 

 it will become every day easier, and a sense of 

 confidence born of use will grow up similar to 

 that which comes to us on the bicycle, except 



