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now. When we get our horses ready, I must insist on 

 your, accompanying me to the races at that place, where I 

 will insure you a hearty welcome from the hosts of ad- 

 mirers the fast horse has there ; when you will "see 

 sights " that 110 city on the face of the globe can equal. 



The river that almost washes the eastern line of the 

 stud farm, furnishes the easiest and safest method of 

 transporting horses, and it does not require a map 

 to remember the grand towns lying along its shores. 

 St. Louis, the " King City " of the West, with its miles 

 of levee and hundreds of steamboats ; Memphis, New Or- 

 leans, &c., &c. But as all these places have been marked 

 to be visited during the fall and winter campaign, I will 

 say nothing at present about them ; and as our stipulated 

 nooning is now ended, I am anxious to show you the ju- 

 venile division now awaiting your scrutiny at the barn. 



PBECEPTOS. I shall certainly take great pleasure in 

 making the trip you contemplate, if your horses turn 

 out good enough to travel with. All my ideas are asso- 

 ciated with the Atlantic seaboard, and it will be a novelty 

 to see the portion you extol so highly; and though I can see 

 nothing that will overbalance the benefits easily obtained 

 here, will look with a favorable eye on the country where 

 you have located your home. I remember, many years 

 ago, falling in with an old sallow-faced woman who had 

 just returned from the West. She summed up a not very 

 nattering description of the country with the remark, 

 that " it was an amazin' fine country for men and dogs, 

 but an onkimmon hard one for wimmin and horses." 



