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it is not customary to emasculate the males nor to 

 keep males and females on the same farm. It was 

 very confusing at first to see so many stallions of 

 several distinct types, for I did not know the exact 

 type of the breed that I wished to buy. At the 

 very first farm at which we stopped the farmer 

 tried to bribe my interpreter an old acquaint- 

 ance of mine who was then residing in France; 

 but finally, after much inspection of farms, much 

 horse-talk and bantering, for the Percheron horse- 

 man is a French Yankee, I bought four young 

 animals at a cost of $725 apiece. 



Near the village where we were stopping there 

 was an old castle perched on a bluff, three sides 

 of which were rocky and precipitous. The old 

 moat now waterless draw-bridge and the 

 portcullis were all there ; and the castle dark, 

 damp and dingy in charge of a keeper, made 

 one feel 



" Like one who treads alone some banquet hall deserted 

 Where lights are blown and guests have flown 

 And all but me departed." 



It reminded me through what sorrow, stress and 

 crime humanity had passed before it learned to 

 place any real value on love and justice. There 

 at the bottom of that moat lay the bones of many 



