Books: Long Ride

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On the last quarter of his trip (through a country of "real estate agents, Quaker Oats, electrocutions, cement roads, motorists and Gideon Bibles") Tschiffely spends few words. With pardonable pride, however, he tells how Mancha, his spirit still unbroken after some 10,000 mi., convinced a Governors Island sergeant he was unridable. After a Jimmy Walker reception in Manhattan, all three sailed back to the Argentine in grand style, Tschiffely to a triumphant homecoming, Mancha and Gato to a carefree old age on their native pampas.

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