'J2 ladies on horseback. 



ever to get into that rise and fall which yon 

 have seen with others, and so much covet ? 

 How are you to accomplish it ? Only by 

 doing as I tell you, and persevering in it. As 

 your horse throws out his near foreleg press 

 your foot upon your stirrup, in time to lift 

 yourself sHghtly as his off foreleg is next 

 thrown out. Watch the motion of his legs, 

 press your foot, and at the same time slightly 

 lift yourself from your saddle. For a long 

 while, many days perhaps, it will seem to 

 be all wrong ; you have not got into it one 

 bit; you are JQst as far from it apparently 

 as when you commenced. You are hot and 

 vexed, and you, perhaps, cry with mortifica- 

 tion and disappointment, as I have seen many 

 a young beginner do ; bitterly worried and 

 disheartened you are, and ready to give up, 

 when, lo ! quite suddenly, as though it had 

 come to you by magic and not through your 

 own steady perseverance, you find yourself 

 rising and falHng with the trot of the horse, 

 and your labours are rewarded. ; 



After this your lessons are a source of 

 delisrht. You no longer come from theiu 



