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or two. The horse was afterwards sold and went 

 back to Bristol. The statement in the affidavit of 

 Phihps that he paid five dollars for the service fee, 

 proves conclusively that it must have been when 

 Henry Clay first stood in Bristol, for I know that 

 when he went back to Bristol eight or nine years 

 later his fee was fifteen dollars. This fact my uncle 

 and John Dey and Mr. Thompson told me many 

 times. 



''Now as to the report that my uncle ever stated 

 that he might have been mistaken or that he did 

 not say much about the dam of George Wilkes, I 

 know to be false. On my birthday, February 13, 

 1896, my wife and' I visited my uncle and he asked 

 me to walk down to the office with him after dinner. 

 He then said to me that there had been a great 

 howl about the pedigree of the dam of George 

 Wilkes, but that he knew what he was talking about. 

 He stated that he had seen this mare, Dolly Spanker, 

 at the Felter farm and that she was the same mare 

 that he bought of Gilbert, and Gilbert told him he 

 bought her of Joshua Philips, and my uncle said 

 that he sent John Dey to Philips to learn her breed- 

 ing, and he knew that it was true, and that he never 

 made any other statement. He stamped his cane 

 upon the floor in the office and very earnestly said 

 that there was a fool bom every minute, but, they 

 could not change the pedigree of that mare. My 

 uncle died June 18, 1896, and his memory was as 

 clear as it always had been, up to the Very last. John 

 Dey told me this same story all his life. I knew 



