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In "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute the heroine has to ride forty miles through the "wet", at her first time on a horse, to save someones life. She does it and ends up in hospital, OK but unable to sit down for a week. Her fiancee gets told "Thats some Sheila that you have got there mate."