GENERAL GRANT AS A LOVER OF HORSES 



was strong enough to hold a plow. From that age 

 until seventeen I did all the work done with horses, 

 such as breaking up the land, furrowing, plowing 

 corn and potatoes, bringing in the crops when har- 

 vested, hauling all the wood, besides attending two 

 or three horses, a cow or two, and sawing wood for 

 stoves, etc., while still attending school." 



Before he was fifteen he began trading horses with 

 varying degrees of success. Brought up as he was, it 

 is not strange that admiration for the horse of high 

 form and action should have intensified with the 

 years. He was a student of pedigree and perfectly 

 at home in the saddle or behind a fast trotter. 



13 



