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Excerpt from Jess: Bits of Wayside Gospel
Horse, now resented in my heart as a forbid den pleasure, a dangerous concession to the pleas ure - loving side of my life, the prospect of a saddle - horse all my own. It was a luxury not becoming to me, an indulgence which I felt I could not afford, either in point of time or in point of money. But there was no alternative left me, and I went in quest of my white elephant. What solemn weeks were those in which I went jockeying from stable to stable, from one auction sale to another; how attentive the dealers became, how ready they were to serve. At almost any hour of any day a saddle-horse might be seen in front of my study door, a horse sent around by some dealer, thinking I might like him. Questions of color, size, and gait became absorb ing ones. There were several which my judgment approved. But early in the quest a six-year-old mare, a little undersized, but alert, clean-limbed, supple, nervous, albeit of the gentle, cosseting kind, had captured my heart. I tried to choose some one of the other horses, because this one was too expensive, too spirited; in short, too much to my liking. From the first, though greatly ex cited to find herself in the noise of a great city, at the end of the alarming tortures of a railroad ride.
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