A NOVICE'S EXPERIENCES OF MEATH 5 



at once undeceiving one as to the uniformity of Meath 

 fences, a point so often put forward at a distance from 

 the scene. The second of these pasture-dividers is as 

 a great green wall on the top of a rampart. The Master 

 and his big horse have bored a hole, and you see next- 

 comer and next-comer wriggle through and disappear 



A great green wall on the top of a ran?.part 



with an audible splash into some abyss beyond. Oh, it's 

 horrible ! But you and I can't stay here among the fat 

 bullocks. No necessity to repeat the formula. Go slow, 

 go slow ! Are we not already at a dead and fearful stop ? 

 So we too will crawl up, push the thorns and leaves aside 

 as far as we can, to find ourselves poised over a wet, 

 running ditch, too broad, surely, for any horse to jump, 

 at a stand, and too deep, one would imagine, to allow of 



