Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-01
Advance Pages From the Ameri-
can Stallion Register.

less wild condition. distinct and remarkable
breed the islands that dot the Atlantic the
southern Of Maryland and Virginia These sand Dunes
thrown by the eess of old through unwren
by the pen eight in number ranging size from
eight miles in length and width from three miles.
the mainland and therefore easily accessible the
largely inhabited To reach these islands the tourist takes what
is known the New York and Philadelphia raoad Wilmington and
Dover Dell Watsve Md From thence he rowed to Chin
colleague by baeaux he wishes take private conveyance he
hires boat primitive and which liable
submerged if the waves run high
The inhabitants of these islands quite primitive the boats
which they navigate nets the deep blue waters
Few of them read Their language agon
pains and aches with them termed mees Colo misery
gamut of all pains aches that feshis heir to-
Large families among the natives the and the exception
Fifteen and twenty children household being frequent
Fishing the occupation and boys well as the cuva
ssence caring for little the necessities of life The
soil being auval deposit naturally fertile. grows all the cereals
wheat and but thinks planting anything
few vegetables andhode there but few of the titles land
has quad and held undsbd possession twenty The
tall and slim The salow, and shlvoced The
madens are rosy-cheeked plump and bareooted as rule
So much for the inhabitants of these islands, who considered such
and unique types of humanity that of people visit
them each season to study their characteristics and to see their ponies
As the ponies themselves they quite their
These little but graceful and hardy creatures the several islands
doves ranging IN numbers from 100 to o hey average IN size from
hands, and weight from pounds They agile
creatures and being ess accustomed to the sight of
his approach than any colts that permitted
the fields without being haerboken handled any
@ ears h T % b N Poee I s eF ee p r
heads well general thing
are ewe-neked When bed however the
Chncoteague frequently carries his head graceful
whether driven ridden.
ponies when starved are
low and the saddle part short The os and mp fairly good and
the aece fairly well When you to their legs and feet
compelled admit that they of the best No Arabian
a has better ponies and
with SPAWN curb ngbon The and tails of the
little heavier than those of the Arabian but the hair is
straight and the tails sweep the ground In native state they carry
heavy coat the winter The prevailing coo are bay brown
yellow purely bred island pony residing Aaeague
few imagined he could improve the breed by importing
H. hand of
Instead Of Improvement there was reopeson other Words the
innovation did not the Canadian not only did not
improve bone body and symmetry the native horse but deraced
from the hghmeted and disposition the island The
natural gait of the island pony the gaop and have
seenand have lived for these andsa purely bred
island pony few island ponies but they infusion
The island pony Of actabe disposition and easily broken and
when broken remains He has of the tricks of the Texan
He be broken easily colt that has wild the farm
that usually against for a
quarter Of mile Some of them can trot right good clip
The ponies of the island the whole round The OF
peculiar wild kind and nutritious and sparsey
pase and short that the usually off their nppers
coarse [ Of tb marshes SOMETIMES the winters that latitude
excate themselves from the mud and mie Sometimes the
ponies feeding by angry
lash the and carried and destroyed
of the island ponies quite the d and agents from
New York. Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington regularly visited the
islands the early spring and selected for city customers such suited
them The prices those days ranged Tor good pony me ght
land and the hard times have both operated against the sale OF the island
remarkable extent island be
for from $40 Sas The ponies the islands regardless of
partition lines In the spring they rounded up and the youngsters
branded the of the year. and importance
the annual bush meetings 1t this particular time that woudbe
purchasers appear Quarter racing ooracng
all kinds Few colts geed and know of pret than
wematchd wegoomed pair of pony stations htched smart
trap of the proper weight and size.
Where these ponies from originally mystery The natives
they have always been there Possibly they existed on the islands
before they gradually settled by inhabitants from the mainland
My theory of their origin that the primal stock strictly thor
oughbed physical the ponies would indicate
that they stallion and stallion and
have early colonial times from the mainland to of the
discovered by
AS they increased numbers they the other islands the
group already mentioned This plausible theory but of it
proves nothing the other hand they have descended from
thooughbeds that escaped from wrecked vessel This the
by islands, and has been handed down
previous generations and pretty generally credited by Them
thing of they the remarkable breed OF
ponies the evidences good breed
ing than ponies be found American SOIL Their
dsturbs advanced