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CHAPTER IX.

UNCLE THOMAS TELLS ABOUT THE NEW FOREST AND DARTMOOR
PONTES, AS WELL AS ABOUT THE CEFFAL OR WELSH PONY.

“ To-nieHt, Boys, I will go on with my ac-
count of the Ponies, which I was obliged to
leave unfinished last evening. Here is an en-
graving of the Forester, a race of Ponies which
runs wild in the New Forest, Dorsetshire.”

“ T do not like him half so much as this other
one of the Shetland Pony (see Frontispiece),
Uncle Thomas.”

“IT dare say not. Harry; it is far from being
so handsome an animal as the Sheltie; but it is
almost, if not quite, as useful. They are found
in large numbers in the extensive domain of the
New Forest, and though they run about ina
state of wildness, they are all private property.