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INTRODUCTION. 



Stokes, and published at Oxford, it is not, perhaps, 

 unworthy of notice, directions are given for vaulting 

 into the saddle, after the lady has been placed on the 



croup ; together with a plate illustrative of so exquisitely 

 nice and marvellously absurd an operation. In Mexico 



"they manage these things," if not " better," at all 

 events, with more gallantry, than our forefathers did, for 



