218 LADIES ON HORSEBACK. 



fihown them to others I should either have 

 altered soniething in every second line or 

 have given offence to numerous well-meaning 

 persons. When I was a child I committed to 

 memory the inimitable fable of ** The Miller, 

 liis Son, and his Ass," and have taken the 

 moral of it as a guide through hfe. 



GooDALL. — A short hunting-crop without a 

 lash would do. 



Equestrina. — If a horse rears with me in a 

 Ticious manner I hit him between the ears, 

 but I do not by any means expect my readers 

 to coincide in all my views, and those who 

 know a better plan can, of course, adopt it. 

 If an animal rears sHghtly I lean forward 

 against his neck, touch him with my heel, and 

 speak to him. If he persists, and I see any 

 danger of his falling back, I hit him between 

 the ears with the butt-end of my whip, not 

 sufficiently heavily to ^* madden him," nor even 

 to cause him the least pain, but to occasion 

 him to duck his head, which he invariably 

 does ; and if at that instant I hit him sharply 

 with my heel, he drops at once and lashes out 

 hehind. Allowing for a moment that such a 



