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... his employer might know how matters stood before the squire had to leave Puempelhagen. Then Braesig told the "sad life-story" of the old thoroughbred, which had come down to being odd horse about the farm, and which he "had had the honor of knowing from its birth," and told how it "had spavin, grease and a variety of other ailments, and so had been reduced to dragging a cart for its sins." After that he and Hawermann took ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various