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universal horsemanship, has only to look at 

 the equestrian figures of Grecian sculpture. 

 Nothing can be more delightful to the eye of 

 a horseman than the beautiful relics of ancient 

 art which compose the Elgin Marbles. One 

 is never weary of admiring that long proces- 

 sion of graceful cavaliers, each seated in the 

 finest possible position, yet each having an 

 individual character of his own ; their thighs 

 and knees riveted to the horse's girth, their 

 easily drooping legs and feet, their supple 

 waists, their expanded and recumbent busts, 

 their neatly poised heads, their hands and 

 arms playing lightly with every movement of 

 the bridle. It is almost annoying to think 

 that such godlike equitation was thrown away 

 upon the stag-necked, hammer-headed, hog- 

 maned cobs which seem to have been the 

 only inmates procurable for the classical stable. 



