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There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park. There he looked over his stable of superb working Percherons (sired by mighty Fallowfield Buck, a pedigreed stallion bought from his friend Lammot du Pont) ; Brandy, his big Virginia hunter, favorite of his stables; dozens of new calves; his herd's milking records. He lunched with kindly, pretty Mrs. Pew in the mansion-house-a broad, yellowstone Pennsylvania farmhouse with a vast fireplace, beamed ceilings, wide-board floors. Over the rolling, spring-green hills he looked and said, with his quick, humorless smile: "I get about...
...Ottawa. They started at Confederation Park. Along the snow-packed smoothness, like porcelain, of the Driveway to Dow's Lake, then along Carling Avenue to Richmond Road, left at Bell's Corners to Fallowfield and from Fallowfield home, over a back road to the Prescott Highway, and so to Dow's Lake again, and the finish line. Seven teams jogged along, started by the pistol of His Excellency, Viscount Willingdon. Not long ago the Canadian Government encouraged dog-team races because dog teams were the only freight haulers of the northern wilderness after October, an important factor in territorial expansion...
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