Like the mint Mungrel ponies, he is very affectionate & likes to be friskled affected. He will snuggle his nose against my cheek and is as proud as can be when I pat him after a hard run. He will arch his neck & knows perfectly well that I am telling him he had done well! The Mungrels never strike or part their horses. To them a pump is something to carry them through hot & cold and it is not an object in which to lavish affection. I do not say that a mungrel does not have affection for his horse but if he does he never shows it - at least as we do. How these ponies stand the terrible cold if winter, I can not understand for they are never taken under shelters. They must huddle together & warm them-selves as best they can. Today we went out on three ponies which we had hired from a Mungrel. They did not work bad but we found that they could not run fast enough to bring us near an eclipse. We did get two full grown doe but it was only because it happened & do some especially good shooting for they were a long way off. We also saw two wolves, one of them