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 "He is a clever little horse just the same. I think he could be developed for a circus trick pony. That was what I had in mind. If you ever do conclude to sell him, let me know." He put his card in Jerry's hand.

It was true that Sir Arthur did not need money at that time, and no one could foresee the financial disaster which overtook Rosemere's owner the following spring. He became involved in a great South African mining failure, and not only Rosemere, but everything that Sir Arthur possessed, went under the sheriff's hammer. So it happened that the animal buyer from London was notified. He came up, and Dapples was struck off to him for one hundred pounds.

So with many tears the English children said good-byes to the Shetland, just as the other two children had on the Island of Shetland three years before, and Dapples sailed away to America to join the circus. He went in the company of two elephants, a giraffe, two cages of monkeys, and a