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wonderful performance when all the surroundings are 

 taken into consideration. On another occasion I rode 

 this bay horse from Sechele's to Molemo's, a distance 

 of over seventy miles, in about fourteen hours, having 

 spent at least two of them in stalking a spring- 

 bok and hartebeeste, and two more hours during 

 the time I was twice "off-saddled" yet my dear little 

 bay arrived at his destination apparently as corky 

 and full of life as he was at the time of starting. 

 Proud I am of this beauty, and I think he knows it, 

 for, whether loose on the veldt, or tied up, he ever 

 greets my approach with a welcome whinny. 



Yes ! and so does " the old moke," the next in 

 seniority, a thorough type of the best class of Boer 

 horse, once an iron grey in colour, but now getting 

 very white along the flanks. A better hunting horse 

 than " the old moke " never looked through a bridle, 

 and only one fault does he possess that I know of, 

 and that is, if walking at a slow pace he appears to 

 have the same failing as Mr. Wardle's fat boy — going 

 to sleep, and consequently stumbling. But when the 

 rider is aware of this, it is not difficult to prevent its 

 occurrence However, on the grass or bush velt 

 there could not be a safer animal to sit on when going 

 the pace. 



Once he was ridden by a friend of mine, no light 

 weight, I can assure you ; but I had probably better 

 begin the story from the start. It happened in this 

 way. We were out-spanned near Pitsani, in West 



