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as round as a rope, with a good set of limbs, pleasant 

 disposition, and could trot very fast; but left no record, 

 as he was used afterwards only as a gentleman's road 

 horse. But, without getting ahead of Mr. Berry's 

 history, we must give it as we received it irom him 

 This horse was sent by Mr. Coburn, in the spring of 

 eighteen hundred and thirty-five, to John Hiker's 

 tavern, near Little Falls, Passaic County, New Jersey, 

 in charge of Nicholas Smalley, to serve a limited 

 number of mares. Mr. Berry bred this Henry mare, 

 but she failed to get in foal. The next season, Mr. 

 Coburn sent the horse to the same place, but in charge 

 of another groom, who neglected and treated him so 

 badly that Mr. Riker sent word to the owner that he 

 had better take him away. The advice was followed, 

 and the horse returned to New York. Very naturally, 

 Mr. Coburn became heartily disgusted with the stallion 

 business, and meeting Mr. Berry a few days afterwards 

 urged him to take the horse home with him, breed 

 him to as many mares as he liked, and then castrate 

 him an operation, at that time, in the whole country, 



