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fast and enduring that he sold her for $1500. 

 That was considered very high in those days. 

 Madam Temple has always been regarded as a 

 remarkable roadster. Mr. Hughes sold her in 

 1846 to G. B. Cleveland, Waterville, who soon 

 parted with her to N. W. Moss of the same 

 place, but now of Osage, Iowa. By him she was 

 kept as a horse of all work for several years, from 

 whom she was purchased by James M. Tower in 

 the spring of 1854, and he subsequently sold to 

 H. L. Barker, of Clinton, Oneida County, New 

 York, in January, 1855, who now owns her. 

 Flora was her first colt. Her second a horse colt, 

 was foaled in the spring of 1855, and was bought 

 by J. W. Taylor, of East Bloomfield, for R. A. 

 Alexander, of Woodford County, for $500. This 

 colt was sired by H. L. Barker's Edwin Forrest 

 (a Kentucky colt), now owned by S. Downing, 

 Lexington, Kentucky." 



So we can take our choice of pedigrees. If Flora 

 Temple had been born a few years later the Ham- 

 bletonian advocates would surely have claimed 

 her. It has always been a wonder to me that they 

 did not, after all, assert that she was of collateral 



