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year, 1 naturally enough inquired after my old friend. 

 ' Oh,' said he, ' that was a bad business; the hors3 

 turned out a sad rebel. The first time we attempted 

 to mount him, after getting him up from grass, he in 

 an instant threw the man down with the greatest 

 violence, pitching him several yards over his head ; 

 and after that he threw every one that attempted to 

 get on his back. If he could not throw his rider he 

 would throw himself down. We could do nothing 

 with him, and I was obhged at last to sell him to go in 

 a stage-coach.' " 



This " Jumper " appears to have been an extraor- 

 dinary character, sometimes dressed in the skin of a 

 bear, at other times fantastically attired with ribands, 

 &c., and was not particular on what he exercised his 

 power, whether horse, bullock, or any other animal, 

 and used frequently to be seen riding a buffalo. He 

 was a man of the most surprising strength and fearless- 

 ness, and was not deficient in agility and quickness ; 

 and in these chiefly depended his great success in the 

 art of taming and training his antagonists ; although 

 these occasionally failed, none were ever made ac- 

 quainted with the other means he employed when his 

 physical strength proved inefiicient. Sullivan, to 

 whom the other stories relate, seems to use very 

 different measures, never having recourse to brute 

 force. 



The other account is connected with the celebrated 

 " Irish Whisperer," called Sullivan, whose feats were 

 first made public by the Rev. Mr. Townsend in his 

 *' Statistical Survey of Cork." 



" At the Spring Meeting of 1804," (Mr. Castly con- 

 tinues), " Mr. Whalley's King Pippin was brought on 

 Curragh, at Kildare, to run : he was a horse of the most 

 extraordinary savage and vicious disposition. His 



