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utmost success. Another queer transition 



case was that of a horse belonging to Mr. 



John ^Yhite, of Taunton, which he sent up 



to me from the Devon and Somerset to hunt 



with the BLackmoor Vale. I never got on 



a bigger, bolder fencer, and in the Cheriton 



run of, I am afraid to say hoiv many years 



ago, she carried me to the finish in a way 



I shall never forget, although she had not 



before this been outside Devonshire in her 



life. I had also a curious experience with 



a Welsh-bred horse, brought straight out of 



his native fastnesses into a flying country. 



Nothing would induce him to jump or even 



scramble through brush fences at first, but 



over a line of gates, or shift' timber of any 



sort, he could not be defeated. I hunted 



him for five seasons, and in that time rode 



over more gates than I have ever done before 



or since, and, save once, he never gave me a 



fall at any of them. As far as I could find 



out of his previous history — and as he came 



to me at a very early age he could not 



have had a lengthy one — the horse had had 



