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Marvellous description of a thoroughbred horse amongst zebra: "...she never got close...without distending her nostrils in the manner of an 18th century grand dame forced to wade through the fringes of a Paris mob. As for the zebra, they replied in kind, moving out of her path with the ponderous dignity of righteous proletariat, fortified in their contempt by the weight of their number."