HORSE PORTRAITURE. 



its well doings as much as if still the owner. I have only 

 one more aged animal to show you, and he is a grandson 

 of the little French pacer you were just speaking of, being 

 by Pilot, Jr., his dam a well bred mare. These four speci- 

 mens of bad management, will be, a sufficient test of 

 your skill in teaching, and my aptitude in learning, as they 

 have been as unfortunate in their early tutorage as gen- 

 erally falls to the lot of their species. With the young 

 things we will at least have a clean page to commence on, 

 which will be much pleasanter than if we had to use 

 pumice stone and India rubber, before we could make a 

 mark. 



This grey horse we call Clipper, and he was considered 

 as promising a colt as his sire ever got. His dam had 

 produced a trotter that had gone exceedingly well, under 

 the circumstances, and much was expected from the scion 

 of a horse that boasted of Native American, John Mor- 

 gan, Bull Bun, and plenty of other good ones.. 



In his three year old form he gave further proof of his 

 possessing the virtues of his line, by winning a three year 

 old stake in a country where young trotters are as plenti- 

 ful as blackberries in their season. When four years old, 

 his trainer, a black fellow, owned by this horse's breeder, 

 gave him an unmerciful flagellation, which knocked all 

 the trot out of him. He took such a hatred to the track, 

 that he could not be driven round it, and additional 

 threshings confirmed him in this dislike, so that he had 

 to be thrown up. 



He was purchased afterwards by a gentleman, for his 

 services in breeding, and when not in this employment, 

 he drove him on the road. This gentleman, who had a 

 strong desire to improve the stock of the section in 

 which he lived, had spent a great deal of time and money 

 to effect that object. 



He first got a stallion, with a pedigree and form as good 



