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    The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend
    The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend
    The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend
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    The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend

    By Olive Tilford Dargan

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend - Olive Tilford Dargan

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Welsh Pony, by Olive Tilford Dargan

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      Title: The Welsh Pony

      Described in two letters to a friend

      Author: Olive Tilford Dargan

      Release Date: June 30, 2011 [EBook #36565]

      Language: English

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      THE WELSH PONY

      HERD OF WELSH MOUNTAIN PONIES GRAZING

      Brecon, Wales

      THE WELSH PONY

      DESCRIBED IN TWO LETTERS TO A FRIEND

      By OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN

      BOSTON: PRINTED PRIVATELY

      FOR CHARLES A. STONE: 1913

      Copyright, 1913, by Charles A. Stone

      PINKHAM PRESS, BOSTON

      To ANNE WHITNEY

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      INTRODUCTION

      INTRODUCTION

      While living in Devon about a year ago, I first became acquainted with the Welsh pony and found great pleasure in riding and driving with my children through the charming lanes and by-ways of Southwestern England.

      I was so fortunate as to have at that time an attractive little gray mare which was loaned to me by a friend who was spending the winter in France. This little mare, partly Welsh, was so cheerful and friendly, and seemed so much to enjoy our excursions into the country, that I felt sorry to leave her behind when I left Devon.

      The following spring, at the London Horse Show, I saw some splendid specimens of thoroughbred Welsh mountain ponies ridden by children, and my wife and I were so attracted by them that we determined to get four or five and bring them to America. Later during the same season, at the Royal Agricultural Show, which is the best fair of its kind in the world, I saw many splendid ponies of the Welsh breed, and had an opportunity to find out more particularly about them.

      A trip to Wales was then planned with a view of visiting the ponies on their native hills and arranging with some owners and breeders to help me select a small herd for shipment to Boston. On this trip I found the Welsh country so charming and the ponies so attractive and so different from any ponies I had known before, that I spent altogether several weeks in Wales and the border counties selecting a herd which finally amounted to about twenty-five of the best of the true mountain type that I could obtain.

      MY LORD PEMBROKE

      Welsh Mountain Pony Stallion. Winner of First Prize at Brockton Fair, 1912, for best pony thirteen hands or under shown under saddle

      I have been pondering ever since, not only how I might improve and add to my own somewhat superficial knowledge of the remarkable qualities of the Welsh pony, but also how I might bring him to the favorable notice of my countrymen. In this endeavor I was

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