Identifier: crosscountrywith01peer (find matches)
Title: Cross country with horse and hound
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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a thousand you will ever find another. But what suits one person will not always suit another.The man to whom I sold Brunett sold her back to me twoyears later without expressing very deep regret. She wentto the Azore Islands for a gentlemans hack, and I havebeen looking for another Brunett ever since. The pick of the stable, good, honest, and sound.How eager she was at the note of a hound ! Again, the next best horse I ever owned was, withoutdoubt, the homeliest mare that ever graced the GeneseeValley. She came so near to Brunett in disposition andcharacteristics that I would have her. She is such ahomely horse that no one has ever asked the price of her.She is now twenty-two or twenty-three years old, and hasfor the last fifteen years been one of the family. Yet, oldas she is, none can outshine her, either on a short run orin the lead tandem, where, to this day, she is very proudof herself. A Kentucky negro, seeing her driven intotown one day, described her: She aint nothin to look
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High-class grade thoroughbred Blue Rock—hunter type.

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