60 SPORTS AND ANECDOTES. 



some of my readers may have heard of and done 

 more than my friend, who allowed me to write out 

 his statement, and signed his name to it in my Book 

 of Facts. It runs as follows : 



" The event took place about the year 1851 or 1852, 

 the rider weighing ten stone four pounds. He bought 

 a horse at Cahermee Fair in Ireland, from a Limerick 

 breeder named Clifford. The horse's age was four 

 years old, and he got him trained as a hunter by 

 himself. The horse was so extraordinary a jumper 

 that he states he was constantly in the habit of riding 

 him over a stone wall seven feet three inches in height 

 without his touching it. The horse's name was Giraffe, 

 and was only a half-bred horse, a bay, with black 

 legs." (Signed M.P.) 



This story may seem almost incredible, but the 

 gentleman who owned the horse related the story to 

 me himself, and added that the stone wall was not one 

 that would give way if hit, but that it was a solidly 

 built wall, with a coping at top. 



The relater of this is a gentleman of position and 

 well-known as to be depended upon, and was an M.P. 

 I do not give his name, but as I have his signature 

 to the statement I am bound to, and do believe all he 

 has told me. Otherwise, I should be much inclined 



