Far Away And Long Ago A History Of My Early Life By W. H. Hudson








































































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estancias the cattle, too, were all of one colour, and I remember
one estate where the cattle, numbering - Page 173
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On Some Estancias The Cattle, Too, Were All Of One Colour, And I Remember One Estate Where The Cattle, Numbering About Six Thousand, Were All Black.

Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring.

He would have done better if, sticking to one colour, he had bred iron-greys, cream- noses, chestnuts, or fawns or duns - all favourite colours; or better still if he had not confined himself to any one colour. The stallions were all piebalds, but many of the brood mares were white, as he had discovered that he could get as good if not better results from keeping white as well as pie-bald mares. Nobody quarrelled with Gandara on account of his taste in horses; on the contrary, he and his vast parti-coloured herds were greatly admired, but his ambition to have a monopoly in piebalds was sometimes a cause of offence. He sold two-year-old geldings only, but never a mare unless for slaughter, for in those days the half-wild horses of the pampas were annually slaughtered in vast numbers just for the hides and grease. If he found a white or piebald mare in a neighbour's herd he would not rest until he got possession of it, and by giving double its value in money or horses he seldom found any difficulty in getting what he wanted.

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