24 Introduction. 



ated, it must be learnt. That ease and elegance, 

 — that comparative safety in the side-saddle, of 

 which we have spoken, it is impossible to achieve, 

 without considerable practice, based upon proper 

 principles. Many young ladies, however, feel a 

 delicate repugnance to passing through the ordeal 

 of a riding-school ; some, again, do not reside in 

 situations, where the benefit of a teacher's direc- 

 tions can be procured ; while others, erroneously 

 flatter themselves, that they are in possession of 

 every needful acquirement, as regards equestrian- 

 ism, when they have discovered how to retain a 

 seat on the saddle, and guide a horse by means of 

 the bridle. To such of our readers as happen to 

 be comprised within either of these classes, — and 

 to those, also, who, after having received a pro- 

 fessor's instructions, are desirous of further 

 improvement, the following pages, if carefully 

 perused, will, the writer most zealously hopes, 

 prove beneficial. 



