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hind and near front ankles white. After dropping 

 her foal to Watson, I bred the same mare to my sad- 

 dle-stallion, Prince Pulaski, a very dark chestnut, no 

 white save a very small star ; this produce was a fac 

 simile of Watson in every particular ." l 



" Alexander Morrison, Esq., of Bognie, had a fine 

 Clydesdale mare which, in 1843, was served by a 

 Spanish ass and produced a mule. She afterward had 

 a colt by a horse, which bore a very marked likeness 

 to a mule seen at a distance, every one set it down 

 at once as a mule. The ears are nine and a half 

 inches long, the girth not quite six feet, and stands 

 above sixteen hands high. The hoofs are so long and 

 narrow that there is a difficulty in shoeing them, and 

 the tail is thin and scanty. He is a beast of indomi- 

 table energy and durability, and is highly prized by 

 his owner." a 



A similar case is recorded by Dr. Burgess, of Ded- 

 ham, Massachusetts, who says, " From a mare which 

 had once been served by a jack, I have seen a colt so 

 long-eared, sharp-backed, and rat-tailed, that I stopped 

 a second time to see if he were not a mule." 3 



Dr. H. B. Shank, of Lansing, Michigan, informs 

 me that a mare . belonging to himself having pro- 

 duced a mule, was afterward bred to a Morgan stall- 

 ion with remarkably fine ears ; the ears of the colt 

 were large and coarse, presenting a close resemblance 

 to those of a, mule. A second colt produced by the 



1 Rural Sun, as quoted in National Live-Stock Journal, June, 1877, 

 p. 245. 



8 "Principles of Breeding," by Goodale, p. 48. 

 3 Country Gentleman, 1870, p. 426. 

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