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giving her two quarts of oats. I then drove twelve 

 miles, and stopped again in a patch of woods for two 

 hours. The mare had some hay, procured of a neigh- 

 boring farmer, with three quarts of oats, and was well 

 groomed. Starting again at about four o'clock, I drove 

 to Salem, arriving there soon after six, the distance 

 being about fifteen or sixteen miles. The horse 

 seemed perfectly fresh, but as my three days would 

 not be up till eleven p. m. (inasmuch as I started at 

 eleven a. m. on the first day), I concluded to stop for 

 dinner. The mare was put into a stable and rubbed 

 down. Her legs were bandaged, and she was pro- 

 vided with some hay and two or three quarts of oats, 

 which she ate greedily. At seven thirty she was har- 

 nessed again, and came up to Boston as readily as if 

 she were out for the first time that day. Her eye was 

 perfectly bright when I arrived, she exhibited no 

 sign of fatigue, and would doubtless have been good 

 for twenty miles more." 



This was a creditable performance to have been 

 done so easily, especially as the road from Portsmouth 

 is flat and sandy. A moderately hilly road is much 

 less fatiguing. The same filly, it may be added, when 

 but three years old, made seventy miles in a day of 

 twelve hours, drawing a skeleton wagon. Such a 

 journey would have ruined most young horses, but 

 the next morning, when turned out to pasture, she 

 threw up her heels, as sound and lively as any colt 

 in the lot. 



Another Morgan mare, 1 of similar appearance, being 

 black, and " a compactly built, nervy, wiry animal of 

 the steel and whalebone sort," is credited with going 



1 The property of Mr. Farnum, of Waltham, Massachusetts. 



