HISTORY IN THE MAKING 227 



trict rich for fifty years, and live stock will keep 

 it rich forever. 



The time is about 1870. A gray stallion with 

 a long white mane is seen approaching. His name 

 Success happy omen of what was even then in 

 the womb of fate is a household word for miles 

 around. He is given a box in the DUNHAM stables, 

 and the foundation of the greatest triumph ever 

 known in draft -horse breeding in the world is laid. 



Presently we see groups of big gay Percherons 

 unloaded at the little railway station, Wayne, that 

 adjoins the farm along its northern boundary. They 

 are freshly arrived from France. A big new barn 

 goes up. Visitors come. Then more horses, more 

 big red barns, more visitors. Then one by one the 

 stallions are led away to Wayne, and shipped. 

 Some go east, some go west. The best remain at 

 Oaklawn. Each time we look greater numbers of 

 horses are arriving, larger throngs of buyers, and a 

 bigger, ever bigger equipment! 



On the hill overlooking the best-tilled fields in 

 Illinois a Norman castle with towers and battle- 

 ments appears. The old brick house becomes an 

 office. Clerks and typewriters work from January 

 to December trying to keep track of new impor- 

 tations from the Perche and of Mr. DUNHAM'S 



