He sold him to a speculator for a big price, and it has set everybody wild.

If the people who give all their time to it can't raise fast horses, I don't see how the farmers can.

A fast horse on a farm is ruination to the boys, for it starts them racing and betting.

Father says he is going to offer a prize for the fastest walker that can be bred in New Hampshire.

That Dutchman of ours, heavy as he is, is a fair walker, and Cleve and Pacer can each walk four and a half miles an hour." "Why do you lay such stress on their walking fast ?" asked Miss Laura.
"Because so much of the farm work must be done at a walk.