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and stuffed, and may still be seen at the stable of 

 Mr. George Bellows, at Lancaster, N.H. 



" Sherman had not so bold and resolute a style of 

 action, and was not so nervous and high-tempered, as 

 Woodbury ; nor was he, in the language of the stable, 

 so well ' finished up : ' but he was more tractable ; was 

 exceedingly spirited, and a keen, rapid driver ; pos- 

 sessed great powers of endurance, a free and noble 

 spirit that needed neither whip nor spur, and courage 

 that never flagged. 



"Woodbury — sometimes called the Burbank Horse, 

 and known in Windsor County as the Walker Horse — 

 was foaled the latter part of May, 1816, the property 

 of Lyman Wight of Tunbridge, Yt. It has been said 

 that he was raised by a ' Mr. White ; ' but this is a mis- 

 take that would easily occur. The pronunciation of the 

 two names is almost the same ; and, the latter being 

 much more commonly used, the name has been mis- 

 understood. Woodbury was sired by the Justin Mor- 

 gan. Of the blood of his dam we are unable to learn 

 any thing. At the time the colt was foaled, Mr. Lyman 

 Wight was a young man, about eighteen years old ; and 

 the dam belonged to his father, William Wight, who 

 had loaned her to his son for the purpose of raising a 

 colt. She was five years old when the colt was born. 

 Mr. Wight purchased her, the year before, of a Major 

 John Moulton of Bethel, Yt., who brought her into 

 that town. She was large, being over fifteen hands 



