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apprifed of the danger you might have your foot 

 and leg forely bruifed, nay even dragged from 

 your horfe, I have feen fimilar inftances to this, 

 happen more than once,* even v/hen the foot has 

 been in a good fituation by ladies who unthinkingly 

 have endeavoured to pafs objects to the left when 

 they could as ealily have paflbd thofe objects to the 

 rights which ladies iliould make an invariable rule 

 fo to do at all times, if polTible ; for reafons which 

 muil be plain to any one, who will tliink one minute 

 on the matter; another inconvenience will frequently 

 arife by fufFering the leg and foot to be in this horrid 

 form, which is, the ilirrup leather will frequently 

 prefs againfl the leg, fo as to hurt it very much, 

 this I have often had beginners complain of, by 

 faying the buckle of the ilirrup hurt them, when 

 behold 1 never ufe a buckle to my ftirrups on the 

 left fide, as they are always faftened and buckled on 

 die off fide, for two particular good advantages 

 which arife from it; the principal of which is, that 

 as the prelTure or bearing coming from the off fide, 

 it greatly affifts in keeping the faddle even, efpeciai- 

 ly with thofe ladies through a bad habit who accuiloni 

 themfeivesto bear hard on the ftirrup which is nothing 

 more then a habit, and want of learning to ride 

 the right way at fi rft. 



The other reafon is, you can lengthen or fhorten 

 the ftirrup at pleafure, without difturbing the lady 

 at all, and without even difmounting yourfelf, if you 

 are riding on the road^ as the bulinefs is done on the 

 off fide the horfe, nay 1 have altered the ftirrup 

 often without ftopping at all. 



I infift upon it therefore if the ftirrup docs not hang 

 perpendicular, or the fame as when left to itfelf and 



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