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accounts for my not seeing it till close on the leap. 

 The waggon and team, being in the bottom of the 

 lane, of course did not make the leap one atom more 

 difficult, and altogether I should say it was not 

 twelve feet from the one fence to the other. It was 

 nevertheless a queerish jump, and though nothing in 

 any way uncommon as to height or width, was un- 

 common in itself, and one that a less courageous 

 horse would probably have made some dangerous 

 boggle at." 



"But," said the pupil, "you must allow your 

 horse did not face the waggon and horses from any 

 instructions he had had in private practice.'* 



" Decidedly not ; nor did he clear two fences ten 

 or twelve feet apart from any instruction ; but he 

 had been practised at so many double fences that he 

 knew as well as I did how to take them. For instance, 

 if there was only six or seven feet between the two 

 fences, he would probably, nay, certainly, take them 

 both in his swing ; if the distance much exceeded 

 this, he would as certainly, if there was any foot- 

 hold, go, as it is termed, ' in and out,* from knoT\ing 



