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quickly taught the mare to lead, and the young soldier 

 attendant was soon riding her about the enclosure and on 

 friendly terms with his mount. 



In the afternoon of that day I adopted similar tactics 

 with another but younger Grevy zebra mare, and before 

 evening she allowed herself to be ridden quietly. 



Next morning, Jess, who had been haltered during the 



Fig. 122 A. A mountain zebra. 



night, so as to save the trouble of catching her, was 

 produced in the enclosure, and seemed so amiable that I 

 trusted her too much, as I saw when the very badly-fitting 

 saddle came too far forward and pinched her withers, 

 with the result that she promptly bucked her rider off. In 

 this respect I made a mistake in not providing myself 

 with my Australian buck-jumping saddle ; for our ordinary 

 English saddles are of comparatively little use when a 

 horse or zebra starts bucking. We must bear in mind that 



