236 CHASING AND RACING 



at the mares that I have seen run, I have the hardihood 

 to opine that my own Dornroschen was of peerless 

 presence (every one thinks his own crow the blackest !), 

 and that proxime accessit at a beauty show I should place 

 that wonderful, but sometimes disappointing, flyer, 

 Sceptre. 



