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mutandis as to head and tail— descends almost vertically on 

 the other side. To accommodate yourself to this form of 

 calisthenics, your body is at one moment lying along his neck, 

 and at the next it must be thrown back on to the crupper, your 

 spinal cord being called upon to perform the hinge-action 

 required.' This form of exercise is undoubtedly laborious, 

 especially if practised fifty-four times in a single day, as an ' old 



' Where Jack the whip in ambush lay.' 



Oxonian' has assured our authority once happened to him at 

 college. But we do not think it is necessary ; at least we 

 never found it so in the days when we used to disport ourselves 

 in that country, and though our tale never certainly reached 

 such prodigious dimensions as that of the ' old Oxonian's ' 

 (though possibly it may have risen to them by the time we can 

 adopt the same style), we have heard the rattle of the stones 



