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drive or ride her with any satisfaction, and as for 

 menial work, this mare, without known name at 

 that time, was too grand a lady to submit to it. 

 When put into the paper mill team, after refusing 

 light harness work, she sulked, balked, and refused 

 to move, and when beaten would lie down in the 

 chains and let the other horses drag her, rather 

 than either pull or walk. Under saddle she was 

 ugly and wilful, and all the pounding over the head 

 and ears with the crop stick couldn't conquer her; 

 so Howard gave her up as a bad lot, and handed 

 her over to Dr. Huidekoper in a horse trade, in 

 1877, just on the eve of the Doctor's departure, in 

 March, for Europe (after he had taken his medical 

 degree at the University of Pennsylvania), to visit 

 the European hospitals; so the mare was turned 

 out on a farm for the spring, summer, and fall 

 months and until the Doctor returned from Europe 

 the following November. When the Doctor took 

 her up he first gave her a trial to a light buggy, 

 from the Orchard and up the Providence road. 

 "Pandora" went quietly along until the foot of 

 Sandy Bank hill was reached and there stopped 

 stifif and fast, evidently preparing herself for a fight. 

 After one or two mild efforts to get her to move, 

 without success, the Doctor laid the lines across 

 the dash, took his mail from his pocket and quietly 

 read his letters and newspapers. For a half hour 



