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small. I already had one, a nervous, high-strung 

 sorrel mare, an excellent roadster and fair saddler, 

 but too impatient and quick for farm-work, and 

 I knew that in the spring the price would be high. 



One day while reading the advertisements of 

 horse-sales in Boston, I found one that attracted 

 my notice. I paid scant notice to the "Lady 

 going to Europe, and who wished to get a good 

 home for her seal-brown trotting mare, Jennie 

 B.," etc.; to the "Administrator of a deceased 

 doctor will sell a fine stable outfit, and will throw 

 in the favorite roadster of the doctor"; to the 

 "Forty Canadian chunks just off a contracting 

 job." The lady had gone to Europe too often, 

 the doctor had departed this life with too much 

 regularity, and the Canadian chunks had ap- 

 peared in undiminished numbers for too long a 

 period, to deceive even me. 



But when I read, "Bay mare of good breed- 

 ing, in foal to Electric Jim (2.16J), first dam 

 Sukey M. (2.21), second dam Wilkes Jane (2.12 J) ; 

 mare good roadster, sound and kind, had been 

 driven by a lady and used to farm-work, sold 

 for the high dollar," I was interested at once. 



Perhaps the one thing calculated more than 

 any other to stamp a modest farm as a stock- 

 breeding establishment is a brood-mare and colt ; 

 and besides, since local farmers had given up the 

 raising of colts, good, safe, well-broken native 



