![]() ![]() He thought he would buy a small string of them and if things worked out he would breed and sell them for that purpose. Papa has an idea they would make good deer-hunting ponies, beign hardy and small and able to keep up with the dogs through the brush. They had never had anything but grass to eat and did not weigh over eight hundred pounds. People in Arkansas did not think much of Texas mustang ponies. He was getting shed of them at bargain rates as he did not want to feed them over the winter. ![]() He had heard that a stock trader there named Colonel Stonehill had bought a large parcel of cow ponies from Texas drovers on their way to Kansas and was now stuck with them. In November when the last of the cotton was sold Papa took it in his head to go to Fort Smith and buy some ponies. He was a bachelor about twenty-five years of age. ![]()
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