242 PEECEPT AND PEACTICE. 



BUCK- JUMPING HOESES. 



In compliance with the wishes of X. Y. Z. I will 

 afford such information as I am master of on the 

 subject of his communication. He particularly 

 alludes to Buck-jumpers. There are others who I 

 doubt not are more competent to treat on this subject 

 than I am ; for, though I have possessed horses with 

 nearly every peculiarity of habit incident to the horse 

 I never owned an animal addicted to the one in ques- 

 tion, nor would I ride a horse who was so. I have 

 certainly at times felt the peculiar sensation a buck- 

 jumping horse occasions his rider. This has been 

 when I have imprudently at a slow pace suddenly 



