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Afterwards," replies the Riding-Master and sends the Rough-Riding Corporal for the backboard dread instrument of equestrian persuasion. Muggins is forcibly mounted, put in the lunging ring and sent round and round till he throws himself off at full gallop and lies crying and sobbing like a child utterly broken.
The next pause affords an opportunity for similar witticisms, the only additional fun being that of the clown making ludicrous grimaces at the riding-master every time his back is turned; and finally quitting the circle by jumping over his head, having previously directed his attention another way.
When they seem frightened or a little unsteady on my back I go as smooth and as quiet as old pussy when she is after a bird; and when they are all right I go on again faster, you see, just to use them to it; so don't you trouble yourself preaching to me; I am the best friend and the best riding-master those children have.
But when you are once a riding-master all will be over. You might as well be a butler in a house to which all Paris comes to dine. When you have given riding lessons to men of the world or to their sons, they will no longer consider you their equal." He paused, reflected several seconds and then asked: "Are you a bachelor?" "Yes, though I have been smitten several times."
But Ellen declined, preferring her plodding walk round the ring to any putting of herself forward. Presently Mr. Lindsay came in. It was the first time he had been there. His eye soon singled out Ellen. "My daughter sits well," he remarked to the riding-master. "A merveille! Mademoiselle Lindesay does ride remarquablement pour une beginner qui ne fait que commencer.
When the ladies looked at the handsome, vigorous man, it was quite enough to explain their little friend's predilection for the smell of a stable, but when the latter saw their looks, she blushed up to the roots of her hair, and her only way out of the difficulty was to order the riding-master, in a very authoritative manner, to take the horse back to the stable.
Why, that for this week I am your riding-master, and that by to-morrow you will have a passable riding-school." This happened on a Thursday.
The following are samples of its warrants of arrest: "Muller, a riding-master, will be confined in the former Petit Seminaire, under suspicion of aristocracy, according to public opinion." Boucher, arrested, declares that, "what he said and did in his own house, concerned nobody but himself." Albert Babeau, II., 164, 165, 206.
All aflutter with delightful anticipation, the young lady climbed up on the gate and scrambled into the saddle when Bryce swung the pony broadside to the gate. Then he adjusted the stirrups to fit her, passed a hair rope from Midget's little hackamore to the pommel of Moses' saddle, mounted the pinto, and proceeded with his first adventure as a riding-master.
Such common ground seems a kind of celestial to the better order of those excluded from it. Dartrey relieved her midway in a rigid practice of the formalities: 'I think I may guess that you have something to tell me relating to Miss Radnor? 'It is. Mrs. Marsett gathered up for an immediate plunge, and deferred it. 'I met her we went out with the riding-master. She took to me.
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