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Then, next winter, in the saddle you will get, and 



go as well 

 As if what that day transpired, I had never had to tell ; 

 You will find the bay horse never '' chance " again 



a timber fence, 

 Ride at such a trifle slower, and so show youVe both 



gain'd sense. 



SOME EXCITING MOMENTS. 



LL of us have experienced exciting moments 

 at some time or another in our lives ; let 

 the latter, I take it, have been brief or long. 

 It is, undoubtedly, an exciting moment to the African 

 hunter when he finds himself confronted, and at no 

 great distance, by the king of beasts ; as it is also 

 an exciting moment for the child as he watches his 

 affectionate mother stealthily mixing " a powder " 

 in a teaspoonful of seductive raspberry jam, and is 

 unaware whether the concoction is destined for the 

 consumption of himself or little brother! It is a 

 vastly exciting moment to the soldier when a well- 

 directed shell from the enemy bursts in near prox- 

 imity of his own square, or battalion ; as, too, is the 

 moment an exciting one to the juvenile schoolboy, 

 as he pulls, with eyes closed and quickening pulse, 

 the end of a combustible cracker! But with such 



