HARD TO WIN.

Kumara Times, Issue 461, 19 March 1878, Page 2

HARD TO WIN.

Referring to the mare tint was re-! ceutiy shod with gold at Edinburgh, ' " Man ai>out town," in the Sporting j Gazette, says : —That mare has a '- his- j tory., Her owner, Miss Thoms-on, is i an American heiress worth ahout half i a .million dollars. She has hatiirally.,' been, ever since she reached a marriage/j aide age, the object of persistent at-' tentiou on the part of a. ci'pwd- df ■ needy fortune-hunters, and her life has r in coMssqiifnce been rendeed a burden to iier. They drove her nearly wild in New York, and she had a very narrow escape of beiug. hunted down. '

It was in thiswise: One of her admirers was a dashing and handsome fel- • low, but a terrible scapegrace, and she did not care for him ; but he amused her, and she found it at last verv difficult to get rid of him. She had just purchased this 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, rie accepted the challenge, and a moment later she repented of it. 'However there whs no help for it, and.the - race for a wife had to come off. It wa3 a neck-and-neck affair, for the stakes were 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 j[ with gold. Such is the story whict ' I have from New York. Miss Thorn- ' son, I believe, fancies that the assump-.,.. tion of an eccentricity almost allied to = madness is her best defence against the fortune-hunters who her here as.much in America. She weara shoes herself which would hardily, disgrace a' Lancashire wife-kicker, and is otherwise so attired as to shock anyone with aesthetic ideas of woman's costume.'A She will he a very Katherine to .win, i but possibly she may tind the PetruI chio who will tame her. I don't >know I whether she is worth the experiment, but I know a good many men who would make it. for the sake of fche.half million of dollars. •..'."