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repeated the same trick whenever the same spirit 

 moved him. A radical cure was our object, and so we 

 refrained from any further attempts to force him on- 

 wards, but, placing his head under the wall of the 

 toll-house bar, we sat quietly on his back an hour. 

 We then tried to pass him through the gate ; but as 

 his determination appeared to remain in full force, we 

 gave him another hour of stationary riding, during 

 which he was evidently very uneasy and oppressed 

 with the weight he carried, unrelieved as he was by 

 any change of position or any locomotion. At the 

 end of the second hour we believe we might have 

 forced him through, as his resistances were now 

 feeble ; but as they yet evidently existed, we gave 

 him another half hour of waiting, and then he went 

 through the gate as tractably as any horse could do. 

 We did not let the matter rest here, but rode him 

 fully ten or twelve miles further than we had intended, 

 purposely to give him notice that implicit obedience 

 would be exacted of him in future, on pain of a 

 punishment not at all to his taste. He never after- 

 wards showed the smallest disposition to rebel, al- 

 though, as we learned subsequently, he had, several 

 times before coming into our possession, been passed 

 from hand to hand in the Rothings of Essex, as utterly 

 incorrigible." 



