70 PONIES — THEIE DIFFERENT BREEDS. 



wMch were some years ago muct. the fashion for lailie 

 pony carriages. They ran from ten to eleven hands hig 

 with softer and finer coats than the Shetlanders, and wit 

 manes and tails which, though full and flowing, were nc 

 BO abundant and massive as those of their little congener 

 They were not unfrequently albinoes, having blood-red pi 

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

 Hanoverian origin. Persons who remember the drive i 

 Hyde Park and. the corner of Kotten Row in the daj 

 when George IV. was King, will not easily forget th 

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

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

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

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

 stamp, in full uniform of top boots, leather breeches, an( 

 miniature hunting whips. These pretty Hanoverians are 

 however, only pretty playthings for pretty women, fo 

 they have none of the stamina of the Shetlanders. Shetlan( 

 ponies of the true breed are not often imported into Amei 

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

 Scottish and Welsh ponies are being introduced, and, i 

 black, are often erroneously called Shetlanders. At thi 

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

 noticed a very neat, very small dark grey pony, not abov( 

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

 ordinary run of Shetlanders. He was in the care of a ver] 

 large, very green Hibernian, between whom and ourselvw 

 passed the following colloquy. 



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

 " He is. (rin'ral Moore, of Belleville." " Is he a nativi 

 pony, or imported ?" " He is." " He is what f" " He i 

 that!" "Yes, I see — where did he come from?" "H( 

 come from New York ; the Gin'ral got him there !" "Ah 

 I understand. But did he come from across the sea. o: 



