He's clean thoroughbred, isn't he?" The purchaser was biting, and Tom understood his business as if he had been brought up to it.

The father and son talked horse all day and until one in the morning; for they owned fast thoroughbreds, and entered them at the Sheepshead Bay and other race-tracks.

"It will be better presently," gasped Catrina, wrestling with her fractious little Tartar thoroughbreds, "when we get out on to the high-road.

Swiftly, before she could answer, he turned away and strode toward the impatient thoroughbred.

A moment later Lady Maud appeared, on a lanky and elderly thoroughbred that had been her own long before her marriage.

Then Foley's thoroughbred strained herself, as these slim-legged, dainty-fetlocked thoroughbreds will do when the going is rough, and he had to take a back seat.

"It will be better presently," gasped Catrina, wrestling with her fractious little Tartar thoroughbreds, "when we get out on to the high-road.

Incidentally, we wrecked some promising thoroughbreds.

As to my own, a tall chestnut thoroughbred that Mr. Parish had brought over from England, I never saw him in finer fettle.

"It will be better presently," gasped Catrina, wrestling with her fractious little Tartar thoroughbreds, "when we get out on to the high-road.