Contemporary Review, May 1st, 2000
Happy the young man who can, for a time, entrust his education in life to an experienced member of the opposite sex. I am fortunate enough to have had two such mentors, both ladies past their prime whose charms were of the maturer kind. One was Najma, meaning 'Star', a three-quarter bred Arab with everything of the thoroughbred about her in looks and comportment. The other quarter I fancy owed itself to a drop of Waler blood in her genealogy, from one of the thousands of Australian horses shipped to the Middle East in 1914 as Cavalry remounts. But before her came Poppy. Despite her plebeian ...
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