HARD TO WIN.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 197, 19 April 1878, Page 3

HARD TO WIN.

Keferring to the mare that was re* cently shod with gold at Edinburgh, " Man about Town,'* in the Sporting Gazette, says :— r-That mare has a history. Her o*vner, Miss Thomson, is an American heiress, worth, about half a million dollars. She has naturally been, ever since she reached a marriageable age, the object of persistent attention on the part of a crowd of needy fortunehunters, and her life has in consequence been rendered a burden to her. They drove her nearly wild in New York, and she had a very narrow escape of being hunted down. It was in this wise : One of her admirers was a dashing and handsome fellow,' but a terrible scapegrace, and she did not care for him ; but he amused her, and she found it at last very difficult to get rid of him. She had just purchased that mare, and in one of- her mad freaks she told this gallant suitor that he might have her hand if he could beat her mare in a half-mile gallop, she riding the mare herself. He accepted the challenge, and a moment later she repented of it. However, there was no help for it, and the race for a wife had to come off. It was a neck-arid-neck affair, for tho ' stakes v> ere heavy, but the mare drew away at the finish, and won by a length. It is in gratitude for the victory which saved her from a husband that Miss Thomson recently had that mare shod with gold. Such is the/story, which I . have from New York. Miss Thomson, I believe, fancies that the assumption of an eccentricity almost allied to madness is her best defence against the fortunehunters who pester her 8 here as much as in America. She wears shoes herself which would hardly. disgrace a Lancashire* wife-kicker, and *is otherwise W attired as to shock any.onewithrrestbe- • ! tic ideas; of woman's costume. '- She will be avery Katherine<fto f wid, but 'pos- 1^ sibly.she may find, the J^etruchip who will tame her. 1 know tvßeiher J she is worth. the experimiti t£but -I knows a good ; many men whpj^ouTd make, it M for the sake of the half million of Sdol* law. .:-'■-'•"■-'■!■'■■■-■'■■; ■"'■; '■<~':k. : s:- : .±-~-yl-'i^Mf£.