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to stand stiil. I warrant that a horse treated 

 thus, especially if you can breast him up hill, 

 will rarely run away a second time. He never 

 forgets his punishment, nor seeks to put him- 

 self in for a repetition of it. 



I have been run away with three times in 

 my Kfe, but never a second time by the same 

 horse. It may amuse you to hear how I 

 escaped upon oach occasion. 



The first time, I was riding a beautiful little 

 thoroughbred mare, which a dear lady friend 

 — ^now, alas ! dead — had asked me to try for 

 her. The mare had been a flat-racer, and, 

 haying broken down in one of her trials, had 

 been purchased at a cheap rate, being still 

 possessed of beauty and a considerable turn of 

 speed. 



Well, we got on splendidly together for an 

 hour or so on the fifteen acres. Phoenix Park, 

 but, when returning homewards, some boys 

 who were playing close by struck her with a 

 ball on the leg. In a second she was off like 

 .the wind, tearing down the long road which 

 leads from the Phoenix to the gates. She had 

 the bit between her teeth, and held it like a 



