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time ere he consented to be mounted again. 

 I jogged on after hounds until a strange sight 

 met my gaze in a water meadow separated 

 from the field I was in by a big dyke. It 

 was a horse which was walking slowly along 

 with apparently something hanging down by 

 his side. Fearing I hardly knew what, 1 

 scrambled into the field, and after going some 

 distance found that the apparition was a man 

 hanging head downwards from his saddle, his 

 feet being firmly wedged into the stirrup- 

 irons ; a very unpleasant position unless help 

 had come. Another curious accident happened 

 when running the Shooters' Hill line. After 

 the check, and at the beginning of the second 

 line, four of us charged the first fence abreast, 

 and every one was simultaneously grassed ! 

 Once a ludicrous thing happened at Bexley, 

 in the boggy water meadows. My horse was 

 takino; off" at a brook when the rotten bank 

 let him in head first, just as I slipped over 

 his tail and took my seat upon "the fiure" 

 behind him. That incident nearly robbed the 

 Service of a most promising young officer. 



