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horse was swept off its feet . Stallibrass slipped out of the saddle , clung to the pommel with one hand and , swimming with the other arm , left it to his horse to find the way . Within a quarter of an hour she was in shallow water and ...
horse was swept off its feet . Stallibrass slipped out of the saddle , clung to the pommel with one hand and , swimming with the other arm , left it to his horse to find the way . Within a quarter of an hour she was in shallow water and ...
Page 150
ven in these days of the ubiquitous motor vehicle there are certain ceremonial occasions when the only appropriate means of locomotion is the horse . It is impossible , for example , to envisage Her Majesty the Queen taking the salute ...
ven in these days of the ubiquitous motor vehicle there are certain ceremonial occasions when the only appropriate means of locomotion is the horse . It is impossible , for example , to envisage Her Majesty the Queen taking the salute ...
Page 153
But this was at a time when the breeding of carriage and baggage horses had been so wilfully encouraged at the ... was only just beginning to be replaced by the horse furniture fitted with a pommel , ' having a depression cut in the ...
But this was at a time when the breeding of carriage and baggage horses had been so wilfully encouraged at the ... was only just beginning to be replaced by the horse furniture fitted with a pommel , ' having a depression cut in the ...
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Contents
A DAY ON THE LOCH BY A J MCGEOCH | 134 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE MURDER OF PORTEOUS BY | 212 |
SOME LESSER CAPTAINS | 237 |
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