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years. She had married an ill-bred foreign- 

 er of immense wealth of an old established 

 family. I said, "What are you doing 

 here?" She replied, "Playing with my 

 children," and there were five, all around 

 her, and such curious specimens of human- 

 ity I never saw ; more like monkeys, — such 

 curious little heads, such wiry little bodies, 

 skinny legs and little black eyes, not one 

 had a feature of their beautiful mother. 

 That girl, if properly advised by an ex- 

 pert, would never have placed herself in 

 such a position. 



THE MIXING OF THE BREEDS. 



Among horse breeders, runners are 

 called hot-blooded and draft-horses cold- 

 blooded. If a cold-blooded Percheron Stal- 

 lion be bred to a hot-blooded Thoroughbred 

 Mare, the life germs of the male offspring 

 will contain all the elements of both breeds. 

 They will be of unequal size and of irregu- 

 lar shapes' — some quick of movement, 

 others sluggish. Some of the life germs 

 will carry the beautiful head and neck of 

 the Thoroughbred and the clumsy heavy 



