INTRODUCTION Vll 



Beginning with a bit of advice to 

 parents, of which they stand sorely in 

 need, it is the purpose of this book to 

 carry the girl along the bridle-path, from 

 the time she puts on a habit for the first 

 attempt, to that when she joins the 

 Hunt for a run across country after the 

 hounds. 



There is no intention of wearying and 

 confusing her by a formidable array of 

 purely technical instruction. 



The crying fault with nearly all those 

 who have handled this subject at length 

 has been that of distracting the un- 

 informed reader by the most elaborate 

 dissertation on all points down to the 

 smallest details. 



This author, on the contrary, has 

 shorn the instruction of all hazy in- 

 tricacies, with which the equestrienne 

 has so often been asked to burden her- 

 self, and brought out instead only those 



