(36 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 



gested Mr. Vielee, partly walking round the mare, 

 and again looking at her up and down. 



" ' Sound as a dollar, and kind as a kitten/ re- 

 sponded the drover, as firmly as if prepared to give 

 a written guaranty. 



" ' Not always so kind, neither,' said Mr. Vielee, 

 looking again steadily at the mare's face, ' or I don't 

 understand that deviltry in her eye. But that's nei- 

 ther here nor there. You say the mare is for sale. 

 Now let's know what you will take for her.' The 

 result was that Mr. Vielee bought her for $175. 



" i And a pretty good price at that,' said the drover 

 to himself on pocketing the cash, ' for an animal that 

 only cost me eighty, and who is so foolish and flighty 

 that she will never be able to make a square trot in 



her life.'" 



A few weeks later Mr. Vielee took his new pur- 

 chase to New York, and sold her to Mr. G-. E. Perrin 

 for $350. "In the hands of Mr. Perrin," relates the 

 graphic writer from whom I have quoted already, 

 " the little bay mare, who had proved so intractable, 

 so nighty, so harum-scarum, and, to come down to the 

 true term, so worthless to her original owners, was 

 favored with more advantages than ever she had en- 

 joyed before. She was not only introduced to the 

 very best society of fast-goers on the Bloomingdale 

 and Long Island roads, but she was taught, when 

 'flinging herself out' with exuberant and superabun- 

 dant spirit all over the road, as it were, to play her 

 limbs in a true line, and give her extraordinary quali- 

 ties a chance to show their actual worth. If ever she 

 made a skip, a quick admonition and a steady check 

 brought her to her senses ; and when in her frenzy 



