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before us, it was really touching to see poor old 

 Sutton wandering around her dead companion 

 as if unable to make out what had befallen 

 her. Two other mares were near at hand, but 

 Sutton did not seem to notice them at all, her 

 gaze being fixed on her whose sinews were 

 relaxed and whose hoofs were at last still." 

 Morgan Eagle was also the sire of Henderson's 

 Morgan Eagle, who stood 16 hands and was 

 foaled in 1839. From his loins came Magna 

 Charta, a bay horse of 15 hands, foaled May 15, 

 1855. He spent the greater part of his life in 

 Michigan, trotting to a record of 2.31, and died 

 in December, 1886. He sired five trotters, the 

 fastest of which was Hannah D., 2.22J, and among 

 his forty-two producing daughters was the dam 

 of Belle R, 2.15}. 



Gifford Morgan, foaled June 13, 1824, was a 

 dark chestnut and got by Woodbury Morgan. 

 He was a favorite parade horse and left, accord- 

 ing to Linsley, some excellent stock. Green 

 Mountain Morgan, a big little horse, a brown 

 of 1 1 oo pounds, and by Gifford Morgan out of 

 an untraced mare, was foaled about 1832. He 

 passed through different hands to Silas Hale of 

 South Royalston, Massachusetts, and died in Ver- 



