288 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER 



CHAPTER XXI. 



A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. 



Op course all who liave to do witb. horses are liable 

 to accidents, but it seldom occurs that any one man 

 meets with so many as happened to the late George 

 Talkington, once a celebrated horse-dealer at Ut- 

 toxeter, who died on April 8, 1826, at Cheadle in 

 Cheshire, after meeting with more injuries than 

 probably ever befell any other human being. 



'Up to the year 1793 Talkington's injuries were 

 as follows : — Right shoulder broken ; skull fractured 

 and trepanned ; three ribs on the left side broken ; 

 a severe cut on the forehead ; lancet case and knife 

 forced into the thigh ; three ribs broken on the 

 right side ; the right shoulder, elbow and wrist dis- 

 located ; back seriously injured ; cap of the right 

 knee kicked off; left ankle dislocated; right ankle 

 dislocated and hip knocked down ; seven ribs broken, 

 right and left sides ; kicked in the face, and left eye 

 nearly knocked out; the back again seriously in- 

 jured ; two ribs and breast-bone broken ; got down 



