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THE BAT,

THURSDAY. -- Joined the liver brigade this morning, not because I suffer with a complaint of the liver, but because I was anxious to try my new gee in the cool of the morning, and when, as I imagined, there would be few equestrians. But, alas! for me, the Row was crammed, and all the girls looked so nice, having adopted a new riding gear. The skirt is the same dark, tight-fitting style, but worn with a well-cut covert coat over a coloured shirt, fastened round the waist with a belt of white webbing like a saddle girth, and a white sailor hat, with coloured band. I cannot understand why the young folks don't adopt this costume for the evening rides; it must be cooler, and I think, looks awfully smart. Now, Miss Annie Oakley, at the Buffalo Billeries, though a bit daring in her dress, looks very well on her horse, and her get up is that of the real Wild West. Nice as she looks, I wouldn't care to copy her.