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for £19, but she clipped out a typical Arab, and a 

 beauty. I rode in a non-safety habit then, and I 

 can remember the agony of being hung up when 

 once Nelly Grey fell. My head was swinging 

 against her rather ready heels and I called to her 

 to stand still. 



Mr, Langrishe was quick to stop anyone jumping 

 the fence, and came over on his feet to help me, 

 but I never rode in a non-safety again. 



Victory my next purchase was a big weight 

 carrier, a good fencer, but in her later years given 

 to refusing. She only died last year, a very old 

 mare, kept on clover in her old age by the cousin 

 who bought her from me. With her I bought a 

 trap mare, Sally, a bay without a single good 

 point, which my husband looked at and said dryly 

 that at least we could not teach that thing to 

 jump. He referred to my groom and myself, as 

 so far all the trappers had become hunters, and 

 there was never anything to drive. 



Sally could trot her fourteen easily, she had a 

 mouth of lead and a vivacious spirit and she did 

 her first hunt in two months. 



No one could hold her and no fence could put 

 her down. She was as fast as a thoroughbred and 

 stayed for ever. I had her in Limerick for one 

 season, and when I was not * circUng round fields ' 

 trying to avoid kilhng someone, I was brilHantly 

 carried. We tried every bit made, vainly ; nothing 



