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utmost success. Another queer transition 

 case was that of a horse belonging to Mr. 

 John White, of Taunton, which he sent up 

 to me from the Devon and Somerset to hunt 

 with the Blackmoor Vale. I never got on 

 a bisfsfer, bolder fencer, and in the Cheriton 

 run of, I am afraid to say liow many years 

 ago, she carried me to the finish in a way 

 I shall never forget, although she had not 

 before this been outside Devonshire in her 

 life. I had also a curious experience with 

 a Welsh-bred horse, brought straight out of 

 his native fastnesses into a flying country. 

 Nothing would induce him to jump or even 

 scramble through brush fences at first, but 

 over a line of gates, or stifi" timber of any 

 sort, he could not be defeated. I hunted 

 him for five seasons, and in that time rode 

 over more gates than I have ever done before 

 or since, and, save once, he never gave me a 

 fall at any of them. As far as I could find 

 out of his previous history — and as he came 

 to me at a very early age he could not 

 have had a lengthy one — the horse had had 



