It is my opinion that he would be greatly pleased to give it to Leon, if he could do what he liked." "Well, that's precisely the thing he can't do in this family," said mother sternly.
"What do you think, father ?" asked Laddie.
"I think Amen! to that proposition," said father; "but I would have to take time to thresh it out completely.

It appeals to me that Leon is old enough to recognize the value of the animal; and that the care of it would develop and strengthen his character.

It would be a responsibility that would steady him.

You could teach him to tend and break it." "Break it!" cried Laddie.

"Break it! Why father, he's riding it bareback all over the Pryor meadow now, and jumping it over logs.
Whenever he leaves, it follows him to the fence, and the Princess says almost any hour of the day you look out you can see it pacing up and down watching this way and whinnying for him to come." "And your best judgment is---- ?" Laddie laughed as he tied my hood strings.