330 THE PERFECT HORSE. 



a roadster. His form was more symmetrical than either 

 of the others. Plis breast was not so full and prominent 

 as Sherman's. He was deeper in the flanks, and better 

 quartered. No horse ever had less fear. Martial music 

 only roused him ; the firing of guns in no way disturbed 

 him; waving flags and gay uniforms seemed hardly able 

 to attract from him a single glance; and he moved 

 about as if he were himself the principal object of 

 attraction, and the cause of all the attending excitement 

 and display. 



*' Bulrush was foaled in 1812 or 1813. Of this we 

 think there can be no reasonable doubt ; although 

 it has been stated that he was foaled in 1816. We 

 have consulted persons who owned both Bulrush and 

 Woodbury ; and they all agree that Bulrush was the 

 older of the two. Now, there is no question but that 

 Woodbury was foaled in 1816 ; and, if Bulrush was 

 older, it is altogether probable that he was more than 

 one year older : for the Justin Morgan was taken to 

 Claremont early in the spring of 1814, and remained 

 there one year ; and the dam of Bulrush was owned in 

 Randolph, Yt., the year he was sired ; so that, in the 

 absence of any other testimony, we might very reason- 

 ably conclude that he was not foaled later than 1814. 

 But the testimony of Chester Belknap is clear and 

 direct, that he was foaled in 1812. Mr. Belknap was 

 married in 1819. His father, who raised the horse, 

 owned him at that time, and soon after sold him to 



