ICO MAMTA, ZOE NG 
assistance of a log, or stone, or a friendly 
hand for a lift? Western riding is not 
Central Park riding, nor is it Rotten 
Row riding. The cowboy’s, or military, 
seat is much simpler and easier for both 
man and beast than the Park seat — 
though, of course, less stylish. That 1s 
the glory of it; you can go galloping 
over the prairie and uplands with never a 
thought that the trot is more proper, and 
your course, untrammelled by fenced-in 
roads, is straight to the setting sun or 
to yonder butte. And if you want a 
spice of danger, it is there, sometimes 
more than you want, in the presence of 
badger and gopher holes, to step into 
which while at high speed may mean 
a broken leg for your horse, perhaps a 
broken neck for yourself. But to return 
to the independence of riding astride: 
One day I was following a game trail 
