CHAPTER IV 



LADIES ON HORSEBACK 



THIS is not a subject on which I feel 

 inclined to write much, because there is 

 little that a man can write which is not included 

 in those general hints and suggestions given in 

 other parts of this book. Then, too, those 

 instructions which are necessary for women 

 have been very well and charmingly treated by 

 more than one of their own sex. Two writers 

 more especially occur to me as having dealt 

 with the subject of " Ladies on Horseback," or 

 in the hunting^ field out of the fulness of a 

 practical experience and knowledge. They are 

 Mrs. Burn in the chapter on fox-hunting in 

 '' The Sportswoman's Library," and Mrs. Power 

 O'Donoofhue in the book which still remains 

 the best treatise on equitation for women. 

 Both ladies write charmingly and both know 

 what they are writing of, and I feel inclined 



