Here, jump up, and ride on first.
Then we shall see where you fall." Bob looked at me wildly.
"Not afraid, are you ?" "N-no, father," cried Bob desperately; and setting his teeth, he put his foot in the stirrup, mounted, and rode on along the high path with the rock on one side and the steep slope on the other, which ran down to where the perpendicular cliff edge began, with the sea a couple of hundred feet below.
"I don't think I'd do that, Chowne," I heard my father say in remonstrance.
"Bah, sir! Give the boy self-reliance.

See how bravely he got over his scare.

Haven't liked him so well for a week.

Do you think I should have let him get up if there had been any danger ?" "But there is danger," said my father.
"Not a bit, sir.

The pony's as sure-footed as a mule.