292 LADi::s on hoiiseback. 



sir, with yon, that a lady should always wear a 

 spur ; and I notice in this corres23ondence, 

 the ladies who denounce the use of a spur 

 almost invariably say that they have never 

 tried one ; whilst ladies who have once ex- 

 perienced the advantage and convenience of 

 it, never willingly mount a horse without one. 

 There is not any real mystery about ladies' 

 riding or ladies' horses ; almost any horse that 

 will carry a man will carry a woman, and the 

 latter, when on horseback, ought to be pro- 

 vided, as nearly as possible, with the same 

 aids and appliances as are required by the 

 former. It is not every lady who can indulge 

 in the luxmy of a three-hundred-guinea saddle- 

 horse, and the treatment that may answer 

 with such a horse is not necessarily suited to 

 an ordinary hack ; yet some of the hand- 

 somest and most highly- trained ladies' horses 

 in the Eow are ridden with a spur, and it is 

 only proper that they should be ; they have 

 been trained by the professional lady riders 

 with a spur, and they are accustomed to 

 receive from a sHght touch of the spur the 

 indications of the rider's wish ; whilst as to 



