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half-way up the horse's neck, and is so high 

 that when it is merely covered with the 

 usual blanket the horse seems to be loaded 

 already. It is secured with one girth, a 

 crupper and two cords running under the 

 horse's forearms, a practice which accounts 

 for the scars one universally finds there. 

 The people are very lazy about off-saddling, 

 and one often sees a pony grazing for days 

 with his saddle on. A fair load is con- 

 sidered 80 oke, and an oke is over two 

 pounds and a half English, say, with saddle, 

 sixteen stone dead weight to be carried ten 

 hours or more by a pony thirteen hands — 

 not a bad performance. 



Another commonly-met sight consists of 

 a gendarmerie patrol — two men, as in 

 Ireland. This duty is tremendously severe, 

 as the patrols go out for forty-eight hours at 



