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He made a wild movement, startling to the horse. 'You don't understand me! 'Well, then, that ought to settle it. And now I'm going. 'Don't go, he pleaded. 'And look here, you might have loosened your girths. 'I might, but I didn't expect to be here so long. I didn't expect to be so pleasantly entertained. She put out her hand for his shoulder, and, bending unwillingly, he received her foot.
And so she did rode about one hundred and eighty miles through all the snow, which was often up to her horse's girths, and at times she thought she would not be able to get through after all. But at last she did, and when she arrived in London her husband was still alive.
Knowledge of the necessity of having the girths tight enough, to prevent the saddle wobbling, will enable the rider to take the necessary precautions against putting her animal on the sick list from this cause. Undue weight on the near side, which is generally caused by too long a stirrup, by the leaping head being placed too low down, and by rising at the trot for too long a time.
"Yes," he said, brightening up, "'tis as good an animal as monsieur has in his stables." He replaced the saddle and tightened the girths, but spent so much time over the business that Jacques was hard put to it to restrain his impatience. However, he was ready at last, and we all three rode down the slope, and along the road toward the wood.
There was something so utterly ridiculous in that briny circle, soon augmented and completed by the addition of Dinkie, who apparently felt as lonely and overlooked as did his spineless and sniffling mother. So I had to tighten the girths of my soul. I took a fresh grip on myself and said: "Look here, Tabbie, this is never going to do. This is not the way Horatius held the bridge.
The irons for fastening the girths should therefore be of the toughest quality, and, instead of actual girths, only thick ropes of cotton ought to be used. A girth secured with a buckle is most dangerous, as, should the buckle give way, an accident of the most alarming kind must assuredly occur.
A properly made side-saddle consists of the following parts: A leather covering, which comprises the seat, off flap, and safe, which is the trade term for the near flap. A leaping head, which helps the lady to obtain security of seat. A stirrup leather. A stirrup iron. A stirrup bar for the stirrup leather. Girths. Balance strap.
"By Jove," exclaimed Dick, as he swung out of his saddle and loosened the girths, to enable his horse the more readily to recover his wind, "what a monster! He is far and away the biggest elephant that I have ever seen; and if his tusks had been unbroken they would have been a prize worth having, if only as curiosities.
We were mounted on a very miscellaneous lot of Lombock ponies, which we had some difficulty in supplying with the necessary saddles, etc.; and most of us had to patch up our girths, bridles, or stirrup-leathers as best we could.
As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful rider an apparent advantage in the chase; but just as he had got half way through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he felt it slipping from under him.
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