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mare by Winthrop Messenger. Her name was Boston 

 Girl. The Drews, as might be presumed from this 

 origin, are fine, spirited, hardy horses, with much 

 style and dash, and very intelligent. One of them, a 

 handsome bay stallion called Dirigo (whose dam was 

 nearly thoroughbred), used to be driven without bit or 

 rein through the town where his owner lived. Guided 

 by the voice and whip of his driver, the horse would 

 speed down the main street at a 2.40 gait, stop, turn 

 around, and do whatever was required of him. 



One of the best roadsters ever known in New Eng- 

 land is Bay Fearnaught, whose sire was a Fearnaught 

 and whose dam was a Drew, so that in him these two 

 hardy and courageous strains are united. His owner, 

 Mr. David Xevins, once drove Bay Fearnaught from 

 South Framingham to the Somerset Club in Beacon 

 street, Boston, a distance of twenty-two miles or more, 

 in one hour and twenty-eight minutes. The horse 

 was driven to a sleigh containing tw r o men, and the 

 going was very good. Reckoning the distance at 

 twenty-two miles exactly, he maintained a speed of 

 just fifteen miles an hour. Bay Fearnaught has 

 trotted a mile to road wagon in 2.35, and two miles 

 to a road wagon (wagon and driver weighing three 

 hundred pounds) in 5.16. This horse is now twenty- 

 three years old, and his owner reports him as being 

 '•sound as a bullet, and still able and willing to go 

 fast." 



Given a roadster such as I have described, and a 

 light, open wagon fitted with a stout spring, with 

 lamps, and possibly with a small break ; given also a 

 sympathetic companion and a mackintosh, — and, if 

 you like, we will throw in a dog : thus provided, and 



