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& 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 appreciated, 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 patro- 

 nized 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 eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, American 

 Star stood for service at his owner's stable in Goshen, 

 at twenty-five dollars to insure, 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 of 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 fell, Uncle 



