70 PONIiCS — THEIR BlFFERE^l BRBEDS. 



whicli were some years ago mucli the fasbion for ladies 

 pony carriages. They ran from ten to eleven hands high 

 with softer and finer coats than the Shetlanders, and with 

 manes and tails which, though full and flowing, were not 

 BO abundant and massive as those of their little congeners 

 They were not unfrequently alUnoes^ having blood-red pu- 

 pils to their eyes, which tends to confirm suspicion of their 

 Hanoverian origin. Persons who remember the drive in 

 Hyde Park and the comer of Eotten Row in the days 

 when George lY. was King, will not easily forget the 

 beautiful turn-out of the beautiful Lady Foley, a four-in- 

 hand of snow-white ponies, scarcely bigger than the rats 

 which furnished Cinderella's carriage-horses, and two little 

 ten-year-old outriders mounted on two others of the same 

 stamp, in fiill uniform of top boots, leather breeches, and 

 miniature hunting whips. These pretty Hanoverians are, 

 however, only pretty playthings for pretty women, for 

 they have none of the stamina of the Shetlanders. Shetland 

 ponies of the true breed are not often imported into Amer 

 ica, although of late years a good many of the larger 

 Scottish and Welsh ponies are being introduced, and, if 

 black, are often erroneously called Shetlanders. At the 

 State Fair of New Jersey, held at Newark, in 1857, we 

 noticed a very neat, very small dark grey pony, not above 

 ten hands high, but finer coated and less shaggy than the 

 ordinary run of Shetlanders. He was in the care of a very 

 large, very green Hibernian, between whom and ourselves 

 passed the following colloquy. 



"That's a very nice pony, my man ; who owns him ?'• 

 " He is. Oin'ral Moore, of Belleville." " Is he a native 

 pony, or imported ?" " He ^s." " He is what V " He i$ 

 that /" " Yes, I see — where did he come from ?'* " Ho 

 come from New York ; the Gin'ral got him there I'* "-Ah, 

 I understand. But did he come from across the sea» <a 



