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Title: First hand bits of stable lore
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ware, Francis M Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horses Horses CHR 1903 PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor)
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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from our colleges with nothing but a sheepskin to cover their nakedness, and lefttrembling upon the threshold of a destiny withwhich their average collegiate acquirements havebut illy fitted them to cope. That courses insuch matters are not open to the pupils of ouruniversities is matter for comment and reflection,as is the fact that modern languages have, in com-parison with the ancient, until recently formed butan insignificant portion of the preliminary require-ments and regular curriculum. Given the ambition to own a horse, and thequestion of means affirmatively answered, theobstacle of ways remains; and many a Mr.Neophyte has found, or fancied, this an insur-mountable obstacle. Generally recourse is had toUncle John, whom family tradition has handeddown as a combination of the serpent and thehawk in matters equine; Cousin Will also knowsa man who is on terms of friendship with anotherman who keeps several horses, and is therefore anexpert; grandma, according to the fairy-tales 1
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o O HORSE BUYING AND TRYING recited at family reunions on Thanksgiving andChristmas, was a regular daredevil in her saladdays, and still has fancies for the flowing tails andarching necks that used to look so well on sofacushion and sampler; the news spreads through-out the family that Henry is about to buy a horse,and accordingly Henry, after much reflection asto how that act will affect him with regard to hisbusiness associates and social intimates, preparesfor the fatal plunge. Right here is where Mr. Neophyte accumulatesa cargo of trouble that would stagger a dromedaryif he does not, once and forever, cast grandmas,aunts, cousins, friends and all, into the outer dark-ness. A mans wife and his horse are two acquisitionswhich he must choose for himself; and he who triesto please every one will end by displeasing them aswell as himself He will have been told blood-curdlingtalesof the duplicity and chicanery of horse-dealers, and of the treacherous and evil dispositionof horses; and h

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