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The proposition was acceded to, and Uncle Edmond became 

 sole owner of the horse, very unfortunately too, for him: for 

 could Hiram Smith have become sole owner of him 3 even at 

 that time and age, he would have been a source of great 

 profit to his owner, and would have received that care and 

 attention that a horse of his age most needs; for it is 

 a fact, none could equal Hiram Smith in nursing and taking 

 care of a horse. Another reason why he would have been a 

 source of profit is, the horse had just began to be appreci- 

 ated, and would, as we think, in Hiram Smith's hands, 

 have served mares for five years, and for three of those 

 years would have been patronized at the snug sum of five 

 hundred dollars as the price of service. As it was, Edmond 

 Seeley owned him, and the horse soon began to manifest he 

 had lost a friend. Uncle Edmond, with all his good social 

 qualities, was a poor owner for a horse, and especially for a 

 horse of this horse's age. However, in the spring of eight- 

 een hundred and fifty-nine, American Star stood for service 

 at his owner's stable in Goshen, at twenty-five dollars to in- 

 sure, and served seventy-one mares and got forty-three colts. 

 In the spring of eighteen hundred and sixty, he again stood 

 in the same stable, but with all Uncle Edmond's ingenuity 

 in digging pits for mares to stand in he failed to serve a 

 quarter of the mares offered; yet he got ten colts at twenty- 

 five dollars. The same fall, Uncle Edmond gave him away 

 to Theodore Dusenberry, who took him on the farm of Hud- 

 son Duryea, near Goshen, where, out in a field, in February, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, he died. His last set were 

 foaled in eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and we simply 

 mention this from the fact that many are offering to sell Star 

 mares foaled in eighteen hundred and sixty-one. And that 

 none may be deceived, we still state that Uncle Edmond 

 owned and had a colt sired by Star, called "Sm HENRY," 

 who made the same season at the same stable, but at a much 

 less price for service. This may be substantiated by any 

 one calling on John Smith, in Goshen, who holds the books 

 of the ten years' service under Uncle Edmond Seeley, and 



