XXI 

 THE LADY RIDER 



HER POSITION IN THE FIELD HER HORSEMANSHIP HER 



COURAGE AND RESOLUTION A FAMOUS RIDER 



OST men, and at any rate all true sportsmen, 

 agree in paying to the women of their race 

 a chivalrous respect, constituting themselves 

 at all times helping hands in little things and 

 champions in great. There can be no rule without an 

 exception, however, and the exception to the rule of 

 romantic chivalry occurs when men and women meet in 

 the way of business or on the hunting-field. When a 

 woman enters business as a competitor with man, she puts 

 herself on his level, and should, and in many cases does, 

 expect him to treat her with neither more nor less consid- 

 eration than he would show another man. She is in the 

 game and takes her chances. It would be unsportsman- 

 like not to treat her in every way as an equal. If she 

 loses at cards, a man should not, because she is a woman, 

 count only three points against her when she has lost five ; 

 if she backs the wrong horse she should pay every farthing ; 

 and when she rides out to take her chances with men in 

 the chase, she plays a game as truly as if she played bil- 



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