56 JUSTIN MORGAN 



CHAPTER VIII. 



TRUE GOES TO FOUND HIS RACE. 



Beautiful Bay boasted of having carried the Marquis 

 de Lafayette to the great banquet the Hartford people 

 gave him at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, in 1784. 

 The reference to this made the younger horse hope, as 

 ever, rather recklessly, that another war might be de- 

 clared which would give him such opportunities to dis- 

 tinguish himself as his father had had. 



Sometimes father and son stood beneath the Elm on 

 Main street and Beautiful Bay told True of the meet- 

 in there of Generals Washington, Hamilton and Knox, 

 in 1780, when they discussed the Yorktown campaign. 

 The ground under it was trodden hard, as if many 

 others had stood to tell or listen to the story. 



One day True heard the tale of the Charter Oak as 

 they passed it on their way for a lounge on Sentinel 

 Hill ; and he heard, too, the exciting times accompany- 

 ing the burning of the State House, in 1783. 



Often they passed a queer looking young man; head 

 bent in thought, hands clasped behind his back, at whom 

 people pointed, saying with a shrug of understanding, 

 as if to make allowances for the eccentricities of a 

 scholar. 



'There goes No-y Webster!" 



Now and again the two horses went over to Mathew 

 Allyn's mill where the stones turned corn into delicious 

 meal; or they made trips under the saddle up Rocky 

 Hill, where men were hanged from a gibbet over the 



