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uncertainty beyond, but they emerged on the right 

 side, and were soon to the front once more. M.'s 

 horse left his hind-legs in the ditch, but recovered 

 himself; and the two others came through the hole 

 made by S. The pig had taken advantage of a 

 footpath across the fallow, and was rambling com- 

 fortably along it, while his pursuers were still riding 

 as hard as they could lay legs to the ground. One 

 of the others had taken it quietly with a view to 

 saving his horse a fatal thing to do ; the only re- 

 sult being that when the time comes when you wish 

 to overhaul your pig, you find that he has got his 

 second wind and is impossible to catch up at all. 



Meanwhile, our boar turned at right angles into 

 a road, and after following it a quarter of a mile, 

 charged a stiff and forbidding-looking gate which led 

 out of it towards a small cover across two or three 

 fields. He smashed the bottom bar and was through 

 in a moment, but at the same time unfastened the gate. 

 G. was ahead, and as he gave the others a lead, and 

 his horse rose, the gate just swung open before he 

 had realised that it was unlatched. It caught his 

 horse's forelegs and turned him over a heavy fall ; 

 but G. landed on his back, with nothing worse than 

 bruises, and was soon up again and following hard 

 on the heels of the others, who, when they saw him 

 stand up none the worse, had dashed on. 



There is great art in learning how to fall : frequently 

 the mere act of holding on to the reins will prevent the 

 rider from falling directly upon his head by bringing 



