MOUNTING. 



39, 



this, generally speaking, is the safer mode. The lady, 

 in all cases, should take care that her weight be well 

 balanced on her left foot, from which she should rise 

 as perpendicularly as possible; above all things taking 

 care not to put her foot fonvard, but keeping it 

 directly under her. The assistant should not begin to 

 raise her until she has removed her right foot from 

 the ground, and, by strengthening her knee, thrown 

 her weight completely into his hand. 



Having reached the saddle, while her face is still 

 turned to the near side of the horse, and before she 

 places her knee on the pommel, the assistant puts 



the lady's left foot in the stirmp, while she removes 

 her hand from the near to the off crutch of the 

 saddle, holding the whip and reins as before directed. 



