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opinion I heard expressed by a lady when 

 reading the article — that any man who would 

 wiKully expose a woman to risk her life on 

 such a brute behaved disgracefally. There 

 is no object in creation to my mind more 

 attractive than a graceful woman controlling 

 with ease a fine and well-trained horse ; but 

 no one with due respect for the sex would 

 wish to see her taking the place of a rough 

 rider. 



Yours, &c. 



Jeemyn. 



Sib, — Although I care nothing for anything 

 that may be said about myseK, I am ever 

 loyal to my friends, and it seems to me hard 

 that one of the truest of them should be 

 spoken of as having '* behaved disgracefully " 

 by a writer who, with more impetuosity than 

 judgment, jumps at conclusions without 

 waiting to hear the truth. When I was riding 

 homeward after the leap into the farm-yard, I 

 met the owner of the horse upon the road, 



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