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He seemed to have a passion for smashing through big, high-grown ox-fences, and by degrees his rider came to feel that if there was nothing worse coming, the fun was not bad.
The rest, with two exceptions, followed in a cluster at no great distance, and in this order they continued, with very slight variation, for the first two miles, though there were several ox-fences, and one or two of them remarkably stiff. Indeed, they appeared more like horses running over a course than over a country.
"Never; but his groom there says he leads the way in his own country." "And where may that be?" "In Leicestershire, no less," said Matthew. "Does he know Galway?" "Never was in it before. It's only this minute he asked Moses Daly if the ox-fences were high here." "Ox-fences! Then he does not know what a wall is?" "Devil a bit; but we'll teach him."
'I want to see a cub-hunt, broke in Nina. 'Do you mean that you ride to hounds, Cousin Nina? asked Dick. 'I should think that any one who has taken the ox-fences on the Roman Campagna, as I have, might venture to face your small stone-walls here. 'That's plucky, anyhow; and I hope, Joe, it will put you on your metal to show yourself worthy of your companionship.
As I said, the Great Western now runs right through it, and it is a land of large, rich pastures bounded by ox-fences, and covered with fine hedgerow timber, with here and there a nice little gorse or spinney, where abideth poor Charley, having no other cover to which to betake himself for miles and miles, when pushed out some fine November morning by the old Berkshire.
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