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"Two are out of heavier mares--see that one in the middle and the one on the far left--and there's the other three to pick from for the leaders Same sire, five different dams, and a matched and balanced four, out of five choices, all in the same season, is a stroke of luck, isn't it?"

She turned quickly to Mr Hennessy: "I can begin to see the ones that will have to sell for polo ponies--a the two-year-olds You can pick them"

"If Mr Mendenhall doesn't sell that strawberry roan for a clean fifteen hundred, it'll be because polo has gone out of fashion," the veterinary approved, axing enthusiasm "I've had my eye on them That pale sorrel, there You remember his set-back Give hi!--watch him turn!--a cow-skin?-- he'll turn on a silver dollar! Give him a year to make up, and he'll stand a show for the international Listen toCut out that Burlingaht East"

Paula nodded and listened to Mr Hennessy's judght of the abounding young life for which she was responsible

"It always hurts, though," she confessed to Graha such beauties to have them knocked out on the field so quickly"

Her sheer absorption in the animals robbed her speech of any hint of affectation or show--so h a whole library of horse practice, and muddle and mull over the Mendelian Law until I'enius She doesn't have to study law She just knows it in some witch-like, intuitional way All she has to do is size up a bunch of mares with her eyes, and feel them over a little with her hands, and hunt around till she finds the right sires, and get pretty nearly what she wants in the result--except color, eh, Paul?" he teased

She showed her laughing teeth in the laugh at her expense, in which Mr Hennessy joined, and Dick continued: "Look at that filly there We all knew Paula rong But look at it! She bred a rickety old thoroughbred, that anted to put out of her old age, to a standard stallion; got a filly; bred it back with a thoroughbred; bred its filly foal with the sanostications into a cocked hat, and--well, look at it, a world- beater polo pony There is one thing we have to take off our hats to her for: she doesn't let any wo Oh, she's cold-blooded enough She's as re out the undesirables and selecting for what she wants But she hasn't enius falls down, eh, Paul? You'll have to put up with Duddy and Fuddy for a while longer for your trap By the way, how is Duddy?"