Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 393
n ex-citing exhibition of their manly sport. Then comes the slow race between a scoreor more burros, all of pensive mien, all mountedby their young owners. Each little rider is de-termined to be the last in, and so win the prize. Go! shouts the starter. Clang! rings thebell, up rise many pairs of… … THE HURDLE RACE BETWEEN HORSE AND GREYHOUND. are lifted deliberately, and placed upon theground with a leisure that marks the little fel-low as the winner of the prize; and so it proves,for not until all the others are in does this very-sedate racer reach the winning-post.
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