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bv British ladies ; having, no doubt, been a mere pillion, 

 on which the rider sate, as in a chair. 



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At what period our fair countrywomen first began 

 to ride with the knee over the pommel, we are not 



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enabled to state : it is, however, clear, according to 

 the original of the above sketch, which occurs in one of 



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