. Seen from the saddle . n walking, and the point of view of the rideris apt to be wholesome and hopeful. What the world is seen from the top of a bi-cycle we have yet to learn, for the riders of thosewheels of modern progress are too much occupiedby their own equilibrium and appearance andspeed to pay much attention to the sentimentsthat Nature suggests to her loving observers. Inthese witty and sympathetic studies of a NewEngland summer we return again to the compan-ionship of a very noble animal, with whom is con-nected whatever is most romantic in the historyof our race, and who has been t
. Seen from the saddle . n walking, and the point of view of the rideris apt to be wholesome and hopeful. What the world is seen from the top of a bi-cycle we have yet to learn, for the riders of thosewheels of modern progress are too much occupiedby their own equilibrium and appearance andspeed to pay much attention to the sentimentsthat Nature suggests to her loving observers. Inthese witty and sympathetic studies of a NewEngland summer we return again to the compan-ionship of a very noble animal, with whom is con-nected whatever is most romantic in the historyof our race, and who has been the sharer and in-spirer of much of our noblest poetry and achieve-ment. Perhaps when steam and electricity haveentirely relieved him of the degradation of ignoblelabors, he may become exclusively the comradeof our hours of ease and pleasure, and youngwomen and young men will find health in hissociety, and learn that on his back they can anyhour ride away from habits of morbid introspec-tion into a cheerful world. C. SEEN FROM THE SADDLE ^OLLY the mare has been trainedby a girl. The girl is at collegebuilding on her high-schoolfoundation, and has probablygot over all the freakish fem-inine ways she taught Dolly, and sobereddown into a disciplined character. A disci-plined character is produced by a collegeeducation. But Dolly has not left off asingle womanish wile since her mistress badeher good-bye last September. She has a littlebrown head which she twists and turns as ifshe were looking in a mirror, and she thinksit clever to prance and caper when she ismounted. When she hears a step behindher, like the girl in Mrs. Brownings prettypoem, she pricks up her ears and runs. Gretchen, Dollys mistress, has a friendwho teaches in a horse kindergarten, andhe says if he had had the educating of themare this would be a very different colts get up to an early breakfast, takea warm bath before eating it, and then ex-ercise according to the best hygienic meth-ods. Not the
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