BIDING. 2 I 5 



E I D I N G. 



Arma virumque cano. 



In making a few remarks on this subject, a most im 

 portant one to the safety and comfort of the rider, 

 I must prelude the doing so, by saying that a vast 

 deal of this safety and comfort are, to use a figurative- 

 expression, "literally in the rider's own hands." As 

 well might I expect to make a trip to the Nore in 

 safety and pleasantly in a vessel under my own di- 

 rection, as a man to ride with a prospect of either if 

 he has bad hands. We use the term ** hands" only 

 from habit ; but it must be evident that at times the 

 arms are also called on to act in unison with the 

 hands. 



