To the Editor of the "NontH-Cuina Dairy News!
Sis the impossible names given to race ponies here, I recall 'a ease in point which occurred many years ago. An owner with a large stable announced one morning at the Shanighai Rac" Club breakfast table, that he proposed to give a dozen of his ponies the names of the 12 Apostles; whereupon an argument as regards the propriety of such nomenclature at once became gencral. The argument was amusing in the beginning and became fierce at its close. It was suggested that the 'Apostle pontes would prove, every one of them, to be of the "Also-ran" class, which would be very shocking. 'A gentleman hailing from the U.S.A. referred to the ponies as a lot of "all fired' hair tranks'"—this was too
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