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also even at cross-country work in the shape of steeplechasing. 

 I must not forget one who deserves most credit of all for his 

 fearless, and I would almost say, reckless riding, Vesey B. Isaac, 

 then residing near Charleville, and who, though deprived of the use 

 of one leg by amputation, and obliged to use as a substitute an 

 artificial one, still, with the aid of a peculiarly constructed saddle 

 and on his celebrateted horse Tonic, was always to be found 

 amongst the foremost." 



