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broken. Getting your neck broken, however, is, 

 luckily, not a very easy proceeding, and it seems to 

 be almost an art to do so. 



Old Frank Forester, of former days, rode into a 

 pit, which ought to have killed him if he had any luck 

 at all, and, on another man seeing the disaster and 

 calling out to those following to " 'Ware pit," he got 

 reprimanded with, " Hold your tongue, you d d 

 fool, if you don't make such a noise we shall have 

 the pit full ; you'll spoil all the fun if you go on 

 so ! " No doubt there are many wonderful escapes 

 from destruction when hunting, and some men seem 

 to have charmed lives, and, when they have their 

 monkey up, ride at many things that no horse has 

 any business to achieve ; and still they seldom come 

 to real grief. What height any horse has ever been 

 known to jump I should like to know ; but wondrous 

 are the fences that some people get over, no doubt, 

 and wondrous are the places that some people fancy 

 they get over until they are measured. In hot blood, 

 no doubt, desperate deeds are done, deeds of daring, 

 which nothing but hounds running would authorise 

 a man to attempt. In cold blood the feeling is 

 widely different, we all know, and I will proceed to 

 relate the. tallest jump that I ever heard of, though 



