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doubtfully, or laughed, when they saw the Mar- 

 quis. "Run all to legs and no conformation at 

 all," they expressed it, though if the Marquis 

 heard, he did not cease nibbling his grass, and no- 

 one could possibly have told that he ground his 

 teeth in a rage, or was furiously angry within. 

 For the Marquis had always a very quick temper, 

 especially when ridiculed. Fullerton found that 

 out one day when he was playfully teasing him, 

 sticking his thumb in his ribs, for the Marquis 

 caught him through the arm with his teeth, and 

 Fullerton never did it again. After that he 

 understood better how the Marquis felt, since the 

 county had come to think it an excellent joke on 

 him too, his having this strange looking colt on 

 his hands. Indeed Fullerton had rather bragged, 

 before the Marquis was born, that he anticipated 

 the greatest colt of the year. 



If Fullerton had been a different sort of man it 

 might have turned him against the Marquis, but 

 since he was not, it made him kinder instead, and 

 the colt never forgot. 



As the Marquis grew older, nature seemed to 

 do little or nothing to aid him and the way people 

 laughed was annoying, for there was the Yorkshire 

 Lad, foaled only a day or two later, that the 

 county was still talking about, — a fine breedy colt, 

 everyone said, with a short coupled back and 

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