CAST.
The auctioneer glanced at his book. "Number 29," he said, "black mare, aged, blind in near eye, otherwise sound."
The cold rain and the biting north-east wind did not add to the appearance of Number 29, as she stood, dejected, listless, with head drooping, in the centre of the farmers and horse-dealers who were attending the sale of cast Army horses. She looked as though she realised that her day had waned, and that the bright steel work,...
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