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their mother sprang. How the Morrills show it, even 

 when brought down to Young Morrill, and, through 

 him and that wonderful Steve French mare, to the pair 

 of princes, duo geminos fidmina hell% Fearnaught and 

 Fearnaught, jun. ! How apparent it was in Hiram Drew ! 

 Sometimes there is enough of it to make them faint, 

 and sometimes just enough to send them along. So 

 Pilot, ''a genuine Cannuck," came over into the States, 

 and stirred up the thorough-blood to the extent of 

 Pilot, jun., and his rousing son John Morgan, and rush- 

 ing daughter, the dam of Mambrino Pilot. So, from a 

 Canadian mare, Rysdyk's Hambletonian got Bruno, and 

 the Brother of Bruno, and their full sister Brunette. 

 So " a small pacing Cannuck " brought forth " Gift, a 

 chestnut gelding bj Mambrino Pilot," who, "at four 

 years old, received five forfeits, and challenged, through 

 'The Spirit of the Times,' any colt of the same age to 

 trot to harness or to wagon for a thousand dollars, with- 

 out being accepted." So Old Morrill received and 

 transmitted that tremendous stride, which his family 

 will never lose until they are swamped by the daisy-cut- 

 ters of Virginia or the English turf So that wonderful 

 little incarnation of equine genius, Justin Morgan, son 

 of True Briton and the Great Unknown Mare, inspired 

 and elevated the cold horse-blood of Vermont (undoubt- 

 edly largely filled with a French infusion at the time of 

 his arrival there) up to the courage and endurance and 

 style of Sherman and Green Mountain, and at last to 

 the speed of Black Hawk, and Ethan Allen, and Lady 



