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of white in bis face. His knee action was excessively 

 high; he carried his head high, and, altogether, he 

 showed so much dash and power and spirit, and 

 seemed to go so fast, — he could in fact trot a L\40 

 gait. — that he presented a very formidable appear- 

 ance It is said that nobody ever looked behind and 

 saw Wild Tiger approaching, without turning aside 

 and giving him the road. Nevertheless, at a gait of 

 six or seven miles an hour, Wild Tiger was temperate 

 enough to be driven by a woman ; but when his blood 

 was up, it took a strong man to control him. One 

 winter day, Squire Toothaker drove this horse from 

 Phillips to Augusta, fifty-two miles, in hve and one 

 half hours. The snow-drifts near Phillips were so 

 deep that it took him one hour to go the first five 

 miles, so that he drove the remaining forty-seven 

 miles in four hours and a half. Wild Tiger pulled 

 all the way. and came out fresh the next morning. 



Now these successes in breeding were not acciden- 

 tal, for, as we have seen, in three separate cases, a 

 family of extraordinary merit sprang from the union 

 of the Eaton horse with a quick and high-stepping 

 Morgan mare. So, also, as I have stated, a similar 

 cross between the Hambletonian stock and Morgan 

 mares has resulted equally well. Why, then, do we 

 not continue to raise such incomparable hackneys as 

 Shepherd F. Knapp, and such tough, speedy, and 

 beautiful cobs as the Flying Eatons ? The answer 

 must be that our farmers are absorbed in the pur- 

 suit of that ignis fatuus, as it commonly proves, the 

 remunerative trotter. 



I have spoken of the Flying Eatons as cobs, but per- 

 haps incorrectly. What is a cob ? The term is so 



