CHAPTER VI. 



BREEDING PONIES. 



Of all the charming animals in this world 

 none is more so than a well-bred and well- 

 mannered pony. He has so much pluck 

 and endurance, and that generous kindly 

 nature (not unspiced with a dash of mis- 

 chief) which so endears him to mankind, and 

 renders him one of the most useful and com- 

 panionable of all the creatures appointed 

 by a beneficent Providence to their service. 



The pony proper is probably the horse 

 indigenous, so to speak, to these islands. 

 Not, of course, that it is at all likely that 

 any species of equus caballus is really 

 indigenous to them : I mean merely the 

 earliest variety of horse to be discovered in 



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