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for the same purpose, but this I have not 

 seen for a long time ; the effect of it, I 

 should fancy, would wear off as soon as it 

 ceased to be a novelty. 



Work, perhaps, is the best antidote to 

 pulling, though I have never seen tried a 

 recipe said by Custance to have been sug- 

 gested by one Tom Oliver to a pertinacious 

 gentleman who was bothering him on this 

 subject : " Oh, put two men and a boy on 

 him three days a week ; if that won't stop 

 him, nothing will." That is a fair story, 

 but I like better one told of Assheton Smith. 

 He rode hunting a horse which had run 

 away with every one who had ridden him. 

 " And did he run away with Smith, too ? " 

 was the inquiry of a man who was not out 

 of a friend who was. " Not he," was the 

 reply ; " Smith ran away with him, and he 

 could never go fast enough for him any 

 part of the run ! " That was all very well 

 for a story, but, as we all know, there is a 



