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Kentucky, lie informed me that lie was her breeder, that 

 her dam was by Bertrand, left with him by a man who 

 had emigrated to the Pacific slope. Her sire was a 

 French Canadian pacer owned by him. She was bought 

 by a gentleman, who, after making a fortune in business 

 in Cincinnati, bought a large farm in that beautiful coun- 

 try 'that surrounds Madison, Wisconsin, erecting fine 

 buildings, and stocking it with animals that cost a " heap 

 of money." Unfortunately, he had not sufficient knowl- 

 edge of either farming or stock breeding to make either 

 pleasant or profitable. After spending all he had made 

 in fine buildings and foolish experiments, as an illustra- 

 tion of which I was informed that in one season he grew 

 one hundred and sixty acres of carrots ; his large cellars 

 were filled, new ones made, but they would not hold a 

 quarter of his root crops alone his stock and farm were 

 sold. 



He commenced teaching Jane to trot when she was 

 three years old, driving an old trotting mare, and leading 

 the colt behind the wagon. She was broken very easily, 

 proving kind and tractable, but when aroused possessed 

 of a very high temper. 



He built a track, and employed a man who represented 

 himself as being a competent trainer. The farm by this had 

 become very irksome, and most of his time was spent in 

 Chicago and Detroit. The self- recommended man proved 

 not only worthless as a trainer, but a drunken loafer. 

 His horses, of course, felt the effects of his bad temper, 

 engendered by bad whiskey. This animal got to pulling, 

 and finally ran away every time he attempted to drive 

 her. As a proof of her sense, the gentleman's wife could 

 drive her with perfect safety, which she did whenever she 

 wanted to enjoy a drive on the banks of the clear lake 

 which skirted their estate, taking her children with her, 

 and feeling perfectly safe. When sold, she was only 



