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is far better-bred and lighter than those which men now in middle age 

 rode in youth, though a three-quarters-ljred horse, of the jMonmouth- 

 Eclipse blood, upon which as a boy we followed the chase in Illinois, up 



to thirty years ago, was well-enough bred for to-day. He was a large, 

 slashing horse, that never refused a Virginia fence, ditch or water, — 

 there were no hedges in the West in those days — and never brought the 

 rider to grief, though sometimes disaster seemed near enough as we went 



