THE LAURENTIDES PAEK 



ward late in the afternoon; another 

 thirteen miles covered, he found that the 

 doctor was needed, and drove twenty 

 miles to fetch him, seventy-five miles 

 between eight in the morning and one 

 the next morning for a man well over 

 seventy and a horse rising seventeen. 

 To this pious soul the reason is very 

 plain why he and his horse are never 

 sick nor sorry, and he will tell you rev- 

 erently that one who has not been stayed 

 by his own affairs, by fatigue, or winter 

 storms from helping a neighbour in 

 time of need shall neither lack health 

 nor a sound horse ; for so will the good 

 God order it. 



A sturdy little beast twenty-one years 

 of age has been known to cover this 

 same forty-two miles in five hours, and 

 a gaunt long-legged gray that was bowl- 

 ing in at a good pace had, as I found, put 

 one hundred and eighty miles behind 

 him in four days, twice pulling his 

 buckboard up three thousand feet of 

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