The unexpected success which attended the publication of “Ladies on Horseback” induced the Messrs. Ingram, proprietors of the Lady’s Pictorial, to commission me, some little time ago, to write for them a set of articles of a prepared in part from very rough sketches made by my own hand, I think I shall have said enough to form a suitable “preliminary canter” to this volume, and may prepare to go up to the starting-point, and begin my race.
N. P. O’D.
ASSISTING HIM.
See [p. 175].
A HORSE’S PETITION TO HIS OWNER.
Going up hill, Whip me not.
Going down hill, Hurry me not.
On level road, Spare me not.