236 LADIES ON HORSEBACK. 



London ; or of Mr. Thompson, saddler, 

 Dawson street, Dublin. 



Some ladies afiect two spurs — one, the 

 right, being fitted mth a blank rowel; this 

 is, of course, for appearance sake when dis- 

 mounted. I have not often seen two spurs 

 worn. I am not alluding to Miss Bird's 

 riding- costume, as described in her books, 

 Life in the Sandwich Islands and The Bocky 

 Mountains. She rode a la cavaliere, in a 

 Mexican saddle, and wearing big rowel 

 Mexican spurs, and appears from her account 

 to have preferred this style of riding to the 

 modern style and side-saddle. Some years 

 ago I saw a photograph of the Queen of 

 Naples (I think in 1860), representing the 

 queen mounted a la cavaliere, wearing a high 

 felt hat, a long white cloak, patent-leather 

 jack-boots, and gilt spurs. Can any of your 

 readers inform me if this style of riding for 

 ladies is a custom of Southern Italy as well 

 is Mexico and the Sandwich Islands ? 



I am, &c. 



Jack Spur. 



