SHETLAND MIDSUMMER 



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a friend chose the most pigmy, and delightfully 

 coloured of the lot, to take home as a playmate 

 for his children. But, on the richer feeding of 



the south, 

 on grow 

 great size ; 

 resemblance to 

 became posit 





it insisted 

 ing to a 

 and, losing all 

 its former self, 

 ively ugly. 



The ponies appear by twos and threes, grazing 

 upon the dark hillsides, leading down to the 

 black peaty lakes, often very far from human 

 habitation. They seem to be left to themselves 



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