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course, had the usual break ; and the Prince 

 ' realized the stakes; but was considered to have 

 done nothing beyond proving his own pluck 

 (which nobody seems to have called in question) ; 

 nothing from which any living creature could 

 deduce anything that could be turned to useful 

 account, whether as regards horses, or carriages, 

 or slabs of stone, or sanity, or insanity. 



A.D. 1891 : In nineteen days, commencing from 

 Monday, July 6, Mr. James Davies, of Argoed 

 House, Barnes, drove (with at least one com- 

 panion, apparently, as his words are, ' dog-cart, 

 passengers, and luggage being registered over 

 8 cwt.') 07ie horse a thousand miles — that is, an 

 average of 52 miles a day, the longest distance 

 (63 miles) on the last day. The horse seems to 

 have been a well-bred cob, 15 hands high, and 

 was certified by a more or less competent 

 authority to have been ' in good condition ' at the 

 end of his task, and ' no worse for the long 

 journey.' Mr. Davies's object, he declared, was 

 ' to show how valuable a servant the horse is to 

 man, and worthy the care and kindness extended 

 to mine.' Whether this proposition stood in need 

 of such stringent proof or not, Mr. W. Browne, 



