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exactly together, keeping step, as the saying 

 goes, yet my companion was at ease whilst I 

 was in torment. Why was this ? Because he 

 had a leg at either side of his mount, his 

 weight equally distributed, and an equal 

 support upon both sides ; in fact, he had, as 

 all male riders have, the advantage of a double 

 support in the rise ; consequently, at the 

 moment when his weight was removed from 

 the saddle, it was thrown upon both feet, and 

 this equal distribution enabled him to accom- 

 phsh without fatigue that slow rise and fall 

 which is so tiring to a lady, whose weight 

 when she is out of the saddle is thrown 

 entirely upon one delicate Hmb, thus inducing 

 her to fall again as soon as possible, which, 

 if riding a clumsy animal, she is constrained to 

 do at variance, as it were, with his tedious and 

 heavy motion, and hence the inconvenience 

 of the double rise. 



To illustrate my meaning, and explain more 

 fully how it happens that men never complain 

 of this particular evil : a man will be able to 

 stand in his stirrups for a considerable time, 

 even to ride a gallop so doing, because he 



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