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fences, for he will be able to see how his leader gets 

 over, if with a scramble or otherwise ; if the former, he 

 must collect his horse, and make him fly it, as the 

 usual cause of a scramble is a rotten bank, which 

 must be either cleared or taken off from behind it. 

 Young horses generally take this sort of fence 

 better than those more trained, as they are freer 

 (less ' sticky,' as it is termed), and those which are 

 inclined to be over-trained kick-back at everything, 

 no matter what it may be, whether walls, timber, or 

 gates, etc. 



