ces 
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As sible to stand still. It would have been 
VR as easy for quicksilver to remain at the 
| top of an incline. Amid rattling stones 
| :\ and sliding earth they landed on the 
2 firm bank beyond, fully three hundred 
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| teet below me. 
Q It was a shivery sight,-but I started 
| expecting the horse would follow. He, 
however, jerked back snorting and 
trembling, which unexpected move up- 
set my equilibrium, uncertain at best, 
and I fell. Nothing but the happy 
chance of a tight grip on the reins kept 
me from sliding down that dreadful 
/ bank, over the rock into the water, and 
‘ so into eternity (Please pardon the Sal- 
vation Army metaphor). 
I had barely time to right myself and 
get out of the way of my horse, which 
now plunged forward upon the sliding 
rock with me. The terrified animal 
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