To have her mane braided, and a rose or a pansy stuck into her forelock, was to make her too conceited for anything.
She had another trait not rare among her sex.

She liked the attentions of young gentlemen, while the society of girls bored her.

She would drag them, sulkily, in the cart; but as for permitting one of them in the saddle, the idea was preposterous.

Once when Pepper Whitcomb's sister, in spite of our remonstrances, ventured to mount her, Gypsy gave a little indignant neigh, and tossed the gentle Emma heels over head in no time.

But with any of the boys the mare was as docile as a lamb.
Her treatment of the several members of the family was comical.