92 STORIES ABOUT HORSES.

hands, she won four extraordinary matches in
one day. After performing such Herculean
tasks, she became, in her twenty-sixth year, the
property of the late Sir R. C. Daniel, who, to his
credit be it spoken, succeeded in bringing her
into such high condition, that within a few
months, notwithstanding the hardships to which
she had been subjected, she still retained her
beautiful symmetry, and appeared fresh and
clean on her legs; convincing proofs of an
equally excellent stamina, strong constitution,
and good nursing.

‘This wonderful mare was about fourteen
hands three inches high; colour, dark brown,
and her near fetlock-joint white.”

“¢ She must, indeed, have been a phenomenon,
Uncle Thomas.”’

“Poor animal! her treatment seems to have
been what, I fear, is not at all uncommon—
overtasked so long as able and willing, and
neglected and ill-treated when no longer equal
to the unreasonable demands made upon her