56 A MODEL RIDING-SCHOOL. 



and for twenty-five years he has followed his pro- 

 fession in the manage that his father had conducted 

 for a like term before him. Herr Fritz has a 

 theoretical and a practical knowledge of all kinds 

 of riding, is equally good in demanding the ' high 

 airs ' from a schooled horse, or in teaching a young 

 animal the discipline of hand and heel, and he is 

 quick in learning the tempers of the horses he 

 rides. 



The horses of the school I mention are good 

 enough for the purpose for which they are intended, 

 and — what should be the rule in all schools, but 

 one which is more honoured in the breach than in 

 the observance— they are taught to go equally well 

 to either hand, in the walk, in the trot, and in the 

 gallop. 



The price of a single lesson is but half-a-crown, 

 and that for a course of twenty lessons is two 

 pounds, about one-third of the tariff usual in Great 

 Britain, and this in a country where many — if not 

 most — of the saddle-horses are imported, and where 

 the cost of keep cannot be particularly cheap. 

 That these prices are remunerative is proved by the 

 fact that the school has been in a flourishing con- 

 dition for about half a century, in a city that at 

 present numbers but little more than one hundred 

 thousand inhabitants. 



