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knew what it meant, as he had heard it before. 

 He stopped, looked around, and whinnied, and 

 then went on. When he got to his old home he 

 stopped at the door where he had been so often fed. 

 Mrs. Bishop fed him again with bread and cakes. 

 Then he went for his old stable. The door being 

 shut, he lay down close by. They soon saw that 

 he was unwell, and in spite of all they could do 

 he died in six hours. It was believed that the 

 exertion of walking home together with the pleas- 

 ure of getting home caused his death. He was 

 buried eight rods from his stable and a stone 

 placed over his grave." 



Harris's Hambletonian 



In 1826 Isaac Munson of Wallingford, Ver- 

 mont, took a spotted gray mare, a fine driver, 

 said to be a daughter of Messenger, to Granville 

 and bred her to Bishop's Hambletonian, and the 

 result was a gray colt, foaled in 1827, that has 

 passed into history as Harris's Hambletonian ; 

 his number in the Register is 2. This gray colt, 

 when two years old, was bred to six mares and 

 then passed through different hands to Russell 

 Harris of Bristol, Vermont. He was sometimes 

 called Bristol Gray and sometimes Harris's horse. 



