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been Morgan blood in the dam, for any one that will 

 find a picture of her in late years, since slie has been breed- 

 ing, and has not liad her legs regularly clipped, cannot but 

 see that in all her features she not only shows Morgan 

 blood, but indicates, almost certainly, the line or family 

 through which the blood descended. The head, neck, l)ack, 

 hips, the short, broad, hairy legs, all show, if not Morgan 

 blood, something exactly like it, and decidedly as unlike the 

 thorough-bred blood claimed as is possible. 



I have the impression that tlie mystery that so long hung 

 over the blood and origin of " the little bay mare,'' was a 

 Morgan mystery that did not suit her historians to clear up, 

 until they could present it to the public in some shape that 

 would credit some other blood than the Morgan. 



In the history of Ethan Allen we Und another case. If 

 we searcli the records for the best double team time, we 

 shall find that Lantern and running mate stood as the best, 

 without question, previous to the time he met and was 

 beaten by a Morgan horse ; and only a day or two before 

 that event, the editor of the Spirit of the Times (I think 

 Porters), while evidently laboring under the delusion that 

 the New York horse, Lantern, would certainly win on th;it 

 occasion, stated that they expected that their next issue 

 would contain the best double team time ever recorded. So 

 long as the credit of this time was to redound to the glory 

 of one of the New York families, it was a perfectly fair 

 record, Init when it was found that this record was to give 

 glory to the Vermont Morgan blood, some excuse must be 

 invented for not making it ; and the next issue, instead of 

 placing the time then made on the records, contained the 



