EXCITEMENT OF A GALLOP. ‘177 
ment, thus depriving the carnivora of an intimacy with the 
human family; which leads to contempt of our powers of 
resistance, or possibly a relish for our flesh. 
Few of us have not experienced the excitement of a gal- 
lop over a good grass country, with the spotted beauties 
Jeading the way, getting over the ground at a racing pace, 
while your mount is nearly hauling you out of the saddle 
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with enthusiasm and inclination to make himself on still 
more familiar terms with the pack. By Jove, how reckless 
such excitement makes you feel! Fear is banished for the 
time being—all sense of danger is dispelled to the winds, 
and sooner than be thrown out you would ride at a canal, 
or charge any height of timber. You may be old—yet for 
the time feel young: you may be blasé—yet you feel as 
buoyant’as when you made your début. But it is far from 
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