Word: chestnut
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...Chestnut Hill...
...toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief of the Brigade of Guards, rode on to the parade ground, sitting sidesaddle on a 13-year-old chestnut named Winston. Elizabeth II waved a white-gloved hand to her mother, watching from an upstairs window, then took her place before the towering guardsmen. She was the first British queen since Elizabeth I (1558-1603) to review her troops on horseback: Victoria, in her youth, wanted to try horseback...
GEORGE ALBERT DROVIN Chestnut Hill...
...hours, whether at bridge (10? a point), hunting, riding, or reading in his 14-room white brick house in suburban Lake Forest. A voracious reader, he races through three or four volumes a week, mostly history and biography. For years he took an early-morning canter on his chestnut-colored Arabian horse Kebar, but has recently been forced to take up golf because all his friends "got too old" to ride. A hunter who used to go after mountain goats, moose and grizzlies, he now limits himself to smaller game such as pheasant and quail. He gets...
This should be certified as a strictly ancient chestnut. For comparison, see A Fickle Widow, a i sth century Chinese story by an unknown author...