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the end of the second hour we believe we might have 

 forced him through, as his resistances were now fee- 

 ble ; but as they yet evidently existed, we gave him 

 another half hour of waiting, and then he went through 

 the gate as tractably as any horse could do. We did 

 not let the matter rest here, but rode him fully ten or 

 twelve miles further than we had intended, purposely to 

 give him notice that implicit obedience would be exact- 

 ed of him in future, on pain of a punishment not at all 

 to his taste. He never afterwards showed the smallest 

 disposition to rebel, although, as we learned subse- 

 quently, he had, several times before coming into our 

 possession, been passed from hand to hand in the 

 Rothings of Essex, as utterly incorrigible." 



