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horse does. I have seen them take a leap at a 

 " dead stand " and also at speed, in both which cases 

 I hold my remark to stand good ; and whether it 

 was the Ripley or Hendon deer, or Lottery, the 

 steeple-chase horse, their style of jumping was simi- 

 lar. The only quadruped I ever observed prone to 

 buck-jumping has been the greyhound ; they fre- 

 quently bring their hind legs quite under their 

 bodies, and from them, and their fore ones brought 

 forward, throw themselves as it were by a bound over 

 a fence. This I consider the height of buck-jump- 

 ing, and this, to anything like the same extent, I 

 never saw a horse attempt. 



I consider that the little mistake made by X. Y. Z. 

 as to Irish horses jumping in this manner arises 

 from their bringing their haunches under them in 

 leaping at an earlier period of the jump than in 

 a general way do our EngUsh horses, who usually 

 extend themselves more in taking a leap. By the 

 time an Irish horse's rump is perpendicularly over 

 the wall or fence his hind legs will be seen gathered 

 up and over it too. The EngHsh horse at this pre- 



