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standard horse according to this scheme, and his dam, Queen 

 Mary, in England, was a standard trotting brood mare. Now if 

 the dam thus became a standard trotting mare, why should not 

 lago, his sire, become a standard trotting sire? This would have 

 been too glaring and open, and would have been ridiculed as an 

 absurdity by everybody. The trick had to be carried through 

 quietly or it could not succeed. At a later period the sisters of 

 all the standard mares were made standard, and then came the 

 very appropriate and expressive title of the "Pinafore Standard," 

 for it literally embraced "his sisters and his mother and his 

 aunts." This scheme would have admitted a vast herd of so-called 

 trotting mares in Kentucky that had no trotting inheritance, had 

 never trotted themselves, and never produced a trotter. This 

 part of the scheme was certainly not the work of the "Commit- 

 tee on Rules," but the work of an individual for the purpose of 

 'carrying out a selfish and inadmissible scheme to promote 

 local and personal interests. When the exposure of this scheme 

 came out Woodburn, with all its influence in Kentucky, could 

 not stand against it an hour, and every "Pinafore" feature was 

 promptly eliminated. 



When the processes of emendation and change in the "Pina- 

 fore," arid each change "copyrighted," were going forward, the 

 views of the different members of the "Committee on Rules" did 

 not always harmonize, and when it came to the selection of a 

 man to do the work, part of the committee insisted the work 

 should be placed in the hands of John H. Wallace, and after 

 some discussion a committee consisting of Mr. Brodhead and 

 Mr. McDowell was deputed to tender this work to Mr. Wallace 

 on such terms as would be equitable and just. In due time a 

 communication was received from these gentlemen, informing 

 me of the business upon which they had been appointed and 

 wishing to know for what compensation I would engage to com- 

 pile the book, laying down the conditions upon which it must be 

 done. Without having a copy of this correspondence before me 

 I can only give the substance from memory. First, the copy- 

 right was to be in the committee or some member of it; second, 

 the compilations were to be as the committee directed; and third, 

 the book was to be the property of the committee when com- 

 pleted. This was a stunner, but I concluded to play out the role 

 they had assigned me and see what they would do. In my reply 

 I put the case substantially as follows: "Your proposed book, 



