318 THE PEKFECT HOUSE. 



of blemish. His limbs were perfectly smooth, clean, 

 free from any swelling, and perfectly limber and supple. 



"Those persons who saw him in 1819 and 1820 

 describe his appearance as remarkably fresh and youth- 

 ful. Age had not quenched his spirit, nor damped the 

 ardor of his temper; years of severest labor had not 

 sapped his vigor, nor broken his constitution ; his eye 

 was still bright, and his step firm and elastic. 



"However various may be the opinions different per- 

 sons may entertain respecting the merits of the Justin 

 Morgan, we doubt whether any horse can be instanced, 

 in this or any other country, that has so strikingly 

 impressed upon his descendants, to the fifth and sixth 

 generations, his own striking and valuable character- 

 istics. And it may be safely asserted that the stock of 

 no horse ever bred in this country has proved so gen- 

 erally and largely profitable to the breeders of it. The 

 raisinjx of it has made the fortunes of hundreds of indi- 

 viduals, and added hundreds of thousands, if not millions, 

 of dollars to the wealth of Vermont and New Hamp- 

 shire." 



I feel, also, that I can do no greater service to the 

 general reader than to insert in this connection the fol- 

 lowing history and description of the three sons of Jus- 

 tin Morgan from which the Morgans of to-day have de- 

 scended, — viz., Sherman, Woodbury, and Bulrush ; and 

 I do it the more readily, because Mr. Linsley's work, 

 from which the quotation is made, is out of print, very 

 rare, and cannot be obtained : — 



