A Farewell "Hike" 



animals does not seem to exist to any 

 great extent among them. With all 

 her boasted efficiency and "Kultur," 

 Germany has yet to give the world 

 anything much worth while in the 

 realm of animal husbandry, as com- 

 pared with her neighbors of Belgium,' 

 France, the Netherlands, the Channel 

 Islands or Great Britain. I did see 

 now and then a horse that might have 

 had a Percheron sire, but these were 

 few and far between. And this re- 

 minds me of another country road I 

 traveled once in sunny France in the 

 charming little valley of the Huisne 

 (pronounced "Ween") where white- 

 walled cottages and cosy little homes 

 with gardens filled with wondrous 

 flowers and sweet old-fashioned roses 

 bloomed, and apple blossoms spread 

 their fragance far and wide just as 

 they do in Normandy. In all the world 

 there are no greater pets than those 

 big fine mares and foals attended in 

 that favored land by the women and 



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