HORSE AND MAN. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE SEAT. 



UPON no subject has more consummate non- 

 sense been talked or written than upon the 

 best method of acquiring a good seat on horse- 

 back. In fact, the highest authorities have 

 fairly renounced the task of suggesting any 

 method at all, and seem to hold that horse- 

 manship, like reading and writing in the opinion 

 of Master Dogberry, comes by nature. The 

 once celebrated Nimrod pronounces that no 

 man whose thighs are round, or whose calves 

 are large, can ever ride well ; and a far better 

 judge, the clever writer who signs himself 

 c Harry Hieover,' has indorsed the vulgar 

 opinion, that no man can become a horseman 

 who has not been used to riding from his 

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