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Show Ponies for the Boys. Soon carloads of small, wiry, western ponies will arrive in the city, and street car loads of small, effeminate dudes will : wend their way to the pens in search o "polo ponies, ye know." These horsei are bought for $20 to 30 in Wyoming, Texas or Montana, shipped east and find ready purchasers at figures ranging from $30 to even $200, the latter for an exceptional excep-tional bargain. The little animals are a tough lot, and are never really brokoa when sold. Stable handling does a good deal to quiet them, but a person had better keep a sharp lookout, for they strike with their fore feet as readily as they kick with their hind legs. They, however, make a strong, active burden carrier and will run until they drop, and for a boy's horse can hardly lie excelled, having light, elegant shapes in distinction to that other favorite pony the, Shetland. Philadelphia Times. , |