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head between a horse's hind-legs, or of those cruel 

 pommels bruising her delicate ribs and bosom. It is 

 at least twenty to one in our favour every time we 

 fall, whereas with her the odds are all the other way, 

 and it is almost twenty to one she must be hurt. 



What said the wisest of kings concerning a fair woman 

 without discretion ? We want no Solomon to remind 

 us that with her courage roused, her ambition excited, 

 all the rivalry of her nature called into play, she has 

 nowhere more need of this judicious quality than in the 

 hunting-field. 



