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Show w WILD PONIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. A novel sight is afforded visitors to Beaufort when the wild ponies come down to the shore and swlra out to the Island, where they feed unmolested unmo-lested in full sight of the board walk and the boats passing up and down the harbor These wild ponies have lived hereabouts ub long as American hlstorv records. When Sir Walter Raleigh sent his first expedltiou over from England, which landed, at Roanoke Roa-noke Island, a number of ponies were brought over, and it was probably from those becoming wild when the colony was lost that the native ponleB of the present day descended. Though nominallv wild, there Is an ownership recorded and semi-annually roundups are held for the purpose of branding and taking up such as are desired to be used for driving or any other purposeFrank pur-poseFrank P. Fogg In National Magazine. |