On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 03:31:29 +0000 (UTC), Dennis Ahern <[email protected]> wrote: >[...] horse took fright, and the poor boy endeavoured to alight, in > attempting which his foot got entangled in the stirrup leather, and > he was dragged along the ground for near a quarter of a mile, > the horse galloping at a furious rate, until stopped a short > distance beyond Dundrum. When the boy was disentangled the > face presented a horrible spectacle, and so disfigured that it > could not be recognised by his agonised parents, whose feelings > our sympathising readers may more easily conceive than we > could attempt to describe. Something similar happened to an acquaintance of mine as a teenager. I don't know about her face, but she told me that all memory of the incident vanished immediately, coming back slowly 6 months later. As a result, it didn't put her off riding.