GOOD GREY HUNTERS 



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being a guarantee that legs and feet can stand the 

 hard going. 



It is a pair of grey horses that figure, on the most 

 auspicious occasion in our hves, when phghting 

 our troth at the altar with the lady of our choice. 

 After embracing a large concourse of newly-acquired 

 relations, and observing all the ordinances and cere- 

 monies instituted by custom, a pair of grey horses, 

 probably cast-off hunters, done up in white favours, 

 appear on the scene to start the happy bridegroom 

 with his blushing bride on their first journey together 

 in life. Here again a little bit of superstition as well 

 as sentiment creeps in, because the colour is supposed 

 to frighten away the witches. 





Mrs. R. Clayton Swan's Grey. 



