The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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jun., with the reins in his hand, got down to assist a porter in lifting a trunk on to the roof. True, he asked a boy who was passing to stand at the heads of the horses, but something frightened them, and, wheeling round sharply, they charged some iron railings, which broke up like so much match-wood with the impact, and horses and coach tumbled pell-mell over a drop of sixteen feet or so. In the fall, some of the harness giving way, the horses got free, but the coach was smashed up, and an inside lady passenger was badly injured.

DRIVING A SINGLE HORSE.-

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