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down. After Mr. Leatham had fallen, her Grace 

 called out : 



" Here is another place, Custance." 



But as it was my turn next, and I had kept my 

 position, I waited till he remounted, which he did very 

 quickly, and then put my horse at it. ' The Doctor ' 

 appeared to jump it all right, but fell on landing in the 

 same manner as Mr. Leatham's horse. It was a very 

 harmless sort of fall. I jumped on my feet at once, 

 and tried to get the old ' Doctor ' up, but he began 

 to struggle, and I found he could not raise himself. 

 I called out to the Duchess to go on without me. 

 This she did, and as we were not far from Braun- 

 ston, some men very soon came to my assistance. 

 The poor old horse was on the side of a hill, so we 

 decided to pull him right over. After a tremendous 

 effort we got him on his legs, or, I might say, three 

 legs, for, on looking at the place, we found he had 

 jumped on to the stump of a tree that had been 

 sawn off some time. It was all covered with leaves, 

 and landing on his old club-foot, he broke his 

 shoulder. As soon as I could I got on to another 

 horse, the second horses being close to, galloped 

 into Oakham, and found a veterinary surgeon. By 

 the time I got back again the poor old fellow had 

 managed with assistance to hobble on three legs to 



