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of the countiy, and took care to tell them that 

 I was a wonderful judge of a horse.' 



^ Ah ! ' said Ray Danby, ' that is one thing 

 I do like about these people ; they are always 

 willing to acknowledge the existence of superior 

 talent in another.' 



On the following Sunday morning they 

 started at seven o'clock to ride to Baltimore, 

 a distance of about sixty-six miles. Unfortu- 

 nately, after they had got about seven miles on 

 the journey, a chestnut horse cast a fore-shoe ; 

 this horse was only delivered at Auburn the 

 night before, and the man from whom he had 

 been bought had promised to have him shod 

 all round before delivery. This he did not do. 

 Ray Danby, however, who was of course with 

 them, said that there was a blacksmith at 

 Gainsville, eight miles on, and felt sure that 

 though it was Sunday be would in a case 

 of emergency shoe a horse. On arrival at 

 Gainsville they found that the blacksmith, 

 a gentleman of colour, was to preach at the 

 chapel two or three hundred yards up the road, 



