There was a gentleman of the name of Blantyre staying at the hall; he always rode Lizzie, and praised her so much that one day Lady Anne ordered the
side-saddle to be put on her, and the other saddle on me.
"Four men," said the landlord, "riding a la jineta, with lances and bucklers, and all with black veils, and with them there is a woman in white on a side-saddle, whose face is also veiled, and two attendants on foot."
Hearing this Dorothea covered her face, and Cardenio retreated into Don Quixote's room, and they hardly had time to do so before the whole party the host had described entered the inn, and the four that were on horseback, who were of highbred appearance and bearing, dismounted, and came forward to take down the woman who rode on the side-saddle, and one of them taking her in his arms placed her in a chair that stood at the entrance of the room where Cardenio had hidden himself.
His ideas of women were prone to be old-fashioned; they were the ones he had imbibed in the early-day, frontier life of his youth, when no woman was seen on anything but a
side-saddle. He had grown up to the tacit fiction that women on horseback were not bipeds.
He then pulled off his coat, and buttoned it round her, put his hat upon her head, wiped the blood from her face as well as he could with his handkerchief, and called out to the servant to ride as fast as possible for a
side-saddle, or a pillion, that he might carry her safe home.
Sparsit netting at the fireside, in a
side-saddle attitude, with one foot in a cotton stirrup.
the Judge is clean out,” said the man with a look of sagacious calculation; “he turned out a span of horses, that is wuth a hundred and fifty dollars of any man’s money, with a bran-new wagon; fifty dollars in cash, and a good note for eighty more; and a
side-saddle that was valued at seven and a half—so there was jist twelve shillings betwixt us.
They rode upon mules and horses, and there was not a
side-saddle in the party; for this specialty was to remain unknown in England for nine hundred years yet.
The lieutenant-governor, although his visit was one of the anticipated glories of the day, had alighted from his horse, and assisted his lady from her
side-saddle, and crossed the Colonel's threshold, without other greeting than that of the principal domestic.
Our dinner had been indefinitely postponed; but it was growing so late, that my aunt had ordered it to be got ready, when she gave a sudden alarm of donkeys, and to my consternation and amazement, I beheld Miss Murdstone, on a
side-saddle, ride deliberately over the sacred piece of green, and stop in front of the house, looking about her.
The rest of the sentence (she acted her words in dumb-show, of course) was lost in a fit of the fidgets, when she behaved like a puppy chewing a string, a clumsy woman in a
side-saddle, a hen with her head cut off, or a cow stung by a hornet, exactly as the whims of the sea took her.
She doesn't know anything about
side-saddles. Does that distress you?