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Ladies certainly ought not to ride horses which 

 require extraordinary correction. For numerous 

 reasons, which must occur to our readers, a lady 

 should never be seen in the act of positively flog- 

 ging her steed : such a sight would destroy every 

 previous idea that had been formed of her grace 

 or gentleness. Moderate corrections are, however, 

 sometimes necessary; and the fair rider should 

 make no scruple of having recourse to them when 

 absolutely needful, but not otherwise. Astley, in 

 his work on the management of the horse, after 

 very properly recommending all quarrels between 

 the steed and his rider to be avoided, observes, 

 that too much indulgence may induce the horse to 

 consider "that you are afraid of him;" and, our 

 author adds, "if he should once think you are 

 really so, you will find he will exercise every means 

 to convince you that he considers himself your 

 master, instead of acknowledging, by implicit obe- 

 dience, that you are his." 

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