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topics with deep interest. Again, I specially 



thank Mrs. Power O'Donoghue for her genial 



and kindly expression of goodwill, and again 



heartily shake the shadowy hand she offers. 



I quite believe a No. 6 gloved hand can 



control a horse as weU as any 7, 7J, or 8, if 



it only be possessed of the cunning. And 



thanking you, sir, for your kindness, allow 



me as a woman to have the last word, and 



again assert, " the cross seat is much the 



hetter." 



Yours, &c. 



Heesilie. 

 Ambleside (pro tem.)^ Dec. 1880. 



SiE, — Kindly permit me to say a few words 

 in reply to ^' Hersihe's " letter, which appeared 

 in your issue of last week. I am referred to 

 my own paper in your number for November 

 27, but '^ Hersilie " does not quote correctly, 

 •or perhaps the error is the printer's. I think 

 I said ^' My companion was at ease, whilst I 

 was in torture." Now, I merely related the 

 incident with which these words were asso- 

 ciated in order to instruct ladies how to avoid 



