leaping-match

Updated: July 28, 2026

Then came a leaping-match over a ten-railed fence, resulting in the barking of some shins and the demolition of sundry panels of rail. Joe Keating, the wildest rider I ever knew, had emptied his tumbler too often, and insisted on running his horse home through the woods.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876