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" Well, I think you have done enough to-day. 

 You can tell your papa, if you get on as well to- 

 morrow as you have done to-day, you will be able 

 to go out with the other pupils on Thursday on the 

 cliff." 



Needless to say, George never went any more, 

 and you can imagine the riding-master's face when 

 he saw his pupil in the King's Road riding a 

 thoroughbred horse named ' Woodburn ' (given to 

 him by IMr. Ten Broeck) that was very fresh, and 

 bucking and kicking like mad. He then inquired 

 who the pupil was, and found out he had been made 

 the victim of a real good joke. 



On another occasion I was down staying with 

 Fordham at Mr. Mannlngton's in the winter, and we 

 had a good day with the Southdown Foxhounds. 

 The next day George said to me : 



" Would you like to go out with the Brighton 

 Harriers for a lark .^" 



Naturally I agreed. 



I rode a horse called ' Babylon,' and Fordham 

 ' Woodburn,' two thoroughbred animals. I had no 

 breeches and boots, as mine were wet through the 

 day before, so I had a makeshift pair of George's, 

 which certainly did not look as if they were made 

 for me ; but they answered the purpose, and perhaps 



