November's Joys 



which worries about the stud are few and far 

 between unless, indeed, some untoward acci- 

 dent should take place. The young ones have 

 got their backs down and are steadied by 

 regular work; there is as yet no sign that that 

 suspicious foreleg on the old favourite won't 

 last the season through. It is a month, too, 

 in which a lofty sky and stars shining rather 

 brightly on one's homeward ride do not bring 

 those forebodings of a lengthened frost which 

 they do later in the season, and it is seldom 

 indeed that November's frosts come to take the 

 glory off November's joys. 



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