58 A MODEL RIDING-SCHOOL. 



Fritz is the ' Stuttgart Reit-club,' which has the 

 honour to form the civil escort of the King of 

 Wiirtemberg on state occasions. This club, now 

 about to celebrate its tenth anniversary, has a weekly 

 reunion at the school, and on parades it appears in 

 a modest and appropriate uniform. 



The step from figure-riding to the movements of 

 the high school is but a short one ; indeed, many of 

 the latter are required in the quadrilles, but those 

 pupils who wish to carry their education into the 

 highest branches of horsemanship find a most 

 competent instructor in Herr Fritz. 



Horse gymnastics form another course of this 

 school, and Herr Oscar Fritz, a bold and very 

 accomplished rider, gives practical lessons in la 

 voltige and those exercises that make the pupil 

 ready and active in mounting the horse and in 

 maintaining his seat. 



Instruction and amusement are also combined in 

 tilting, or taking a suspended ring upon the point 

 of a sword or a lance while in full career ; in casting 

 darts from the back of a galloping horse against a 

 wooden target that is placed in the mandge, and 

 in other games that teach the rider to be master of 

 his own movements and those of his horse. 



On the whole, I think that a pupil might, with 

 pleasure and profit, take a long course of lessons in 



