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

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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,