166 LADIES ON HORSEBACK. 



keep the curb rein looped over yoiir little 

 finger, hanging quite loose, yet in such a 

 position that you can if necessary take it up 

 at a second's notice. 



I cannot too often impress upon you the 

 advisability of being conciHatory and kind in 

 your manner to everybody with whom you 

 may come in contact. No matter how exalted 

 your rank may be, you can all the better 

 afford to be courteous to those beneath you. 

 Kind words cost nothing, and are as balm to 

 the hearer. Many of the lower orders are 

 quite as much gentry at heart, and far more 

 so, than those who hide their unworthinesa 

 beneath the convenient shadow of a ^* family 

 tree." I have been more than once pained 

 upon hunting days by the extreme contempt 

 and rudeness with which ladies have treated 

 the poor, who have asked nothing from them 

 save the innocent and inexpensive privilege of 

 seeing them mount and canter away with the 

 field. It is all very well to say, " I do not 

 like to be stared at," but even to those wha 

 most dislike it, surely it is worth a little self- 

 sacrifice to see the undisguised enjoyment 



