Give her head, but steady her." And Archie, as the words passed across his memory, and were almost pronounced, seemed to be flying successfully over some prodigious fence.

He leaned himself back a little in the saddle, and seemed to hold firm with his legs.

That was the way to do it.
And then the spurs! He would not forget the spurs.

She should know that he wore a spur, and that, if necessary, he would use it.

Then he, too, gave a little click with his tongue, and an acute observer might have seen the motion of his heel.
Two hours after that he was still sitting in the smoking-room, chewing the end of a cigar, when Doodles came down victorious from the billiard-room.