24 THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND 



I only made a moderate third behind the 

 men on foot. Binning had a thorn in his 

 eye, and had to get off to Cambridge, and 

 then to London, to get it cut out. We all 

 expected to see him back minus the eye, but 

 it was sound again within a week or two. 

 In this Drag, Mosquito jumped the biggest 

 place I have ever seen leaped. I often wish 

 I had gone to measure it, and I fear to 

 state my impressions of what its dimensions 

 are. It consisted of a high four-rail timber 

 fence on the top of a high bank, with about 

 twelve or fourteen feet of water on the take- 

 off side. As Binning was going to have it, 

 I pulled back a length, hoping he would 

 bring the rail down when he fell, as fall 

 he must. To my astonishment, up flew 

 Mosquito over the water ; I saw for a 



