SITU AJT I N OF A MODEL FARM. 55 



athwart the sky. Away to the southeast and beyond the 

 river, are blue, hazy looking hills, an undulating outline 

 losing itself in the far off horizon. Directly opposite the 

 house is a heavily wooded island. Above the dense foli- 

 age of the trees another rocky barrier rears its frowning 

 bulk in broken crags, hundreds of feet above the water. 

 This precipice is on the opposite side of the river, the 

 course of which can be seen for miles from the door of 

 the house. The plateau lying between it and the shelter- 

 ing bluff is spread out, like a map, before you. On the 

 farthest extremity is a neat little village. Between that 

 and the observer are several cultivated farms, the build- 

 ings and fences adding greatly to the comfortable appear- 

 ance of the whole. A steamboat is gliding along over the 

 tranquil waters, and from another village on the eastern 

 shore, a long train of cars is winding its way round the 

 foot of the rocky bluff. A large spring breaks from the 

 most northern ravine, and is running through the pasture 

 like a thread of silver. Erom your seat, in front of the 

 house, you can see where a mile course could be made 

 that, a cat would be visible on every "jump" he would 

 make. You fancy now that you can see the embryotic 

 trotters taking their preliminary lessons, and in another 

 field to the right, but just as much under your eye, some 

 of their kindred are more gracefully galloping. I am 

 now presiirning that I am rich enough to keep race 

 horses, as I would advise every man of moderate means, 

 whose fancy for the horse requires gratification, to stick 

 to the trotters. He will make money out of them if even 

 unsuccessful in breeding top sawyers, the different grades 

 finding ready sales and remunerating prices in the largo 

 towns and cities, while the training expenses of the young 

 race horse are three-fold of his more useful but less 

 showy relative, the young trotter. I quite agree with 

 John Kandolph, that two tolerable things are intolerable, 



