what is the summary of the novel mr. travers first hunt by richard harding davis
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Young Travers, who was going to marry a girl on Long Island, met her father and brother only a few days before the wedding. The father and brother were both very much interested in horses. They owned many fine hourse and they like nothing better than to talk about horses all day long and every evening. Old Paddock, the father had ofter said that, when the young man asked for his permission to marry his daughter, he would ask the young man in return, if not he lived straight, but if he could ride straight. And if the young man answered yes to this question, then he would receive the father’s permission to marry the girl.
Travers had met Miss Paddock and her mother while traveling in Europe. Thus he did not meet the father and brother until he was invited to their home just a few days before the wedding. Unfortunately, this happened during the hunting season. He spent the early part of the first evening talking alone with Miss Paddock in the corner of the room, but later, when the women had gone to bed, the father and son approached him. Young Paddock said, “You ride, of course, Mr. Travers.” Now Mr. Travers had never ridden a horse in his entire life, and he was, in fact, very much afraid of horses; but Miss Paddock had told him earlier that he must answer yes to this question. Therefore, Travers said that there was nothing he liked better than to ride a horse. In fact, he said that he would rather ride than eat ot sleep.
“That’s fine,” said young Paddock. “In that case I’ll give you our horse, Satan, for the hunt tomorrow morning. Satan is always a little difficult to control at the beginning of the season, and last year he killed one of our workmen. Since that time none of us like to ride him. But you can probably control in easily.”
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Explanation:Young Travers, who was going to marry a girl on Long Island, met her father and brother only a few days before the wedding. The father and brother were both very much interested in horses. They owned many fine hourse and they like nothing better than to talk about horses all day long and every evening. Old Paddock, the father had ofter said that, when the young man asked for his permission to marry his daughter, he would ask the young man in return, if not he lived straight, but if he could ride straight. And if the young man answered yes to this question, then he would receive the father’s permission to marry the girl.
Travers had met Miss Paddock and her mother while traveling in Europe. Thus he did not meet the father and brother until he was invited to their home just a few days before the wedding. Unfortunately, this happened during the hunting season. He spent the early part of the first evening talking alone with Miss Paddock in the corner of the room, but later, when the women had gone to bed, the father and son approached him. Young Paddock said, “You ride, of course, Mr. Travers.” Now Mr. Travers had never ridden a horse in his entire life, and he was, in fact, very much afraid of horses; but Miss Paddock had told him earlier that he must answer yes to this question. Therefore, Travers said that there was nothing he liked better than to ride a horse. In fact, he said that he would rather ride than eat ot sleep.
“That’s fine,” said young Paddock. “In that case I’ll give you our horse, Satan, for the hunt tomorrow morning. Satan is always a little difficult to control at the beginning of the season, and last year he killed one of our workmen. Since that time none of us like to ride him. But you can probably control in easily.”