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them if they would not Hke to have him moved 

 to my place at once. They, however, shook their 

 heads, and said : 



" No ; if he lives anywhere, he will live here for 

 a quarter of an hour." 



Gradually his pulse and temperature became more 

 regular, and we put him in the bottom of a cart, and 

 took him to my house at Manton, which was about 

 a quarter of a mile away. There he remained for 

 a month, and never recollects to this day having" 

 been at the house at all. It was a miraculous 

 escape, and the fall was as nearly as possible 

 breaking his neck. The fence was a double post- 

 and-rail fence, with a quickset hedge in the middle ; 

 the rails were three and a half feet high, one 

 leaning towards, and the other away from you, and 

 they were exactly twelve feet apart at the top. 

 There was no chance of doubling it, as there was 

 a ditch to drain the quick in the middle. It was out 

 of light ploughed land into grass, and a little down- 

 hill ; the rails were very stiff, and would not allow 

 any liberty to be taken with them. From what I 

 could learn afterwards from foot people in the village 

 who saw the fall, Goodall's horse hit the second rail 

 just above his knees ; he must have been going a 

 good pace, as it was exactly nine yards from the 



