66 FOX HUNTING. 



exhausted she had to be left at a farm barn for the 

 night, being too much used up to get her home. 

 The Doctor occasionally loaned her to a friend for 

 a hunt, and on one occcasion he loaned her to a 

 young gentleman of Philadelphia, who mounted 

 her in Media and started for the Rose Tree to 

 hunt, but the mare was not going that way, and 

 ran the young man almost into Chester before he 

 succeeded in getting her stopped. 



But "Dora" was gentle and not difficult to 

 handle with the Doctor, and Miss M., his sister-in- 

 law, rode her without trouble. She had, however, 

 a playful disposition to elevate her heels in single 

 harness, but even in this she did not aim to do 

 harm, for she invariably lifted her feet high above 

 the dash board and over the heads of the occupants 

 of the wagon. The Doctor drove her without 

 blinds, check rein, or kicking strap, and when 

 asked why he did so, his answer was, he wanted 

 the mare to have full chance to kick clear of the 

 buggy. Finally, when "Dora" and the Doctor 

 gave up fox hunting, and she went into business 

 use in Philadelphia, the mare learned, after a sharp 

 fall on the slippery cobble stones, that showing her 

 heels in the city was neither profitable nor grace- 

 ful, and she gave up this amusement on the paving 

 and only indulged in it when she got out on the 

 country roads. Any one seeing her standing on 



