CHAPTER XIV. 



REBECCA — BIG FENXES — MR. SHORT — 

 CAPTAIN PAPILLON. 



I RETURNED from Tirhoot with the Walcr marc Rebecca, 

 Avhich belonged to Mr. Edward Studd. She was a Hght 

 little mare which had run unsuccessfully up Chumparun 

 Avay in some selling races, and had a great reputation 

 for being able to jump anything — a stick held up by two 

 men, for instance — in cold blood. Though, to the casual 

 observer, she might not have looked capable of per- 

 forming under more than 9 st., still I did not mind 

 that, for she had lots of quality, was very true-shaped, 

 ■" well let down," and had extraordinary large, well- 

 formed hocks. " No 'ocks no 'unter," as the immortal 

 Mr. Jorrocks used to sa}'. 



I found that Rebecca required a great deal of schooling 

 to make her take her fences in steeplechase form, for she 

 had a nasty habit of dragging her hind legs after her 

 when jumping a wall or timber. She liked fencing so 



