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blown to make a similar effort, I got 

 her, capering and dancing, and in much 

 fear of another knock on the head, safe 

 to my father's stables, about a mile fur- 

 ther ; and when I dismounted I found 

 myself quite enfeebled, and my head in 

 great pain. Instead, therefore, of sitting 

 down to enjoy the society of my father's 

 new guests, and to make acquaintance with 

 my intended brother-in-law, or to partake 

 of the smoking haunch, I was obliged to 

 lay down. I did not recover till the 

 next day, when the guests were all de- 

 parted ; and my father was extremely 

 chagrined that I had been put upon so 

 dangerous an animal, which he sent to 

 its owner, with a not very pleasing mes- 

 sage, by his groom. When I remonstrated 

 with the owner for so unfriendly an 

 act, seeing that I was quite free from 

 injury he only smiled, though he 

 was not a man as 1 thought to feel in- 

 difference when human life was in danger, 



