EIDING ACROSS COUNTRY. 115 



all three of tliem hurt him in different places at once. 

 No wonder then that he acquires the habit of going 

 as hard as he can pelt at a fence, to get over with as 

 little punishment to himself as possible, and soon 

 acquires the habit of doing this, even when he is 

 neither spurred nor whipped. 



T ? 



