88 HARK FORRARD! 



' Oh dear, liow quickly your visit has 

 passed ; how I wish it was three weeks ago.' 



The next day Eay Danby and Reginald 

 Miller returned with the four horses that they 

 had bought near Alder, and a very nice lot 

 they were too. Two hunters and a pair of 

 15.3 harness horses, each of which could 

 trot his mile in two minutes fifty-five 

 seconds. 



' Did you see many nice horses while you 

 were away ? ' said Acton, after the new pur- 

 chases had been inspected and vetted. 



' If we had bought all that we saw, we 

 should have had at least one hundred,' answered 

 Reginald. ' As we were riding along the road 

 the evening we got to Alder, to look at this 

 pair, a man passed and looked very hard at us. 

 Two or three minutes afterwards we heard him 

 galloping up behind us. He drew up alongside 

 me, and said, " Say, are you the Englishmen 

 that are knocking around buying up horses ? " 

 I told him that w^e were prepared to buy any 

 really nice horses if we could get them worth 



