244 LADIES ON HORSEBACK. 



offering a horse for sale, so that it does not 

 come down lower than to a distance of about 

 nine inches above the hocks. The buyer 

 cannot then tell to what length the tail is 

 likely to grow. If customers would refuse 

 to buy horses with the hair of the tail cut 

 short, perhaps the practice in question would 

 be discontinued by the dealers. 



I am, Sir, &c 



X. Y. Z. 

 London, November 10, 1880. 



Sir, — In your paper of last week I notice a 

 letter on the advisability of ladies on horse- 

 back adopting the cross-saddle in place of 

 the side, that is to say, in plain Enghsh, ride 

 astride. This I have done abroad when far 

 beyond conventional bondage, and it is 

 incomparably better. Your correspondent 

 points out the evils resulting from the one-sided 

 twisted seat, which a lady now has, and also, 

 in the same paper, the authoress of Ladies on 

 Horseback says how impossible it is with only 

 one foot in the stirrup to rise comfortably to a 



