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maid, who drove the freight-stage from Windsor to 

 Chelsea, a distance of nearly two hundred miles. Thus 

 the brave old animal, at twenty-seven years of age, was 

 ignominiously thrust into harness company with five 

 other lazy, ill-bred brutes, who dawdled along the road 

 with slack tugs and made the patient Morgan do most 

 of the pulling. 



For the first time in his long life the ambitious horse 

 admitted a feeling of discouragement into his heart; he 

 was ill-fed, never rubbed down, and life seemed utterly 

 hopeless.* 



That was the year men called ''Eighteen-hundred- 

 and-starved-to-death," and throughout the entire sum- 

 mer there was not one warm, sunshiny day. 



Growing wet with their intolerably toilsome exertions 

 over the slippery, tumbling roads, with the wind howl- 

 ing and the trees bending low about them, the horses 



* Editor American Horse Breeder : — I am an old man, eighty- 

 three, this month, and seeing an article in your last in praise of 

 the Morgan Horse, I want to add a word of gratitude for their 

 noble service done me as a stage-proprietor on the Fourth New 

 Hampshire Town-pike ; as livery man and farmer. . . . For 

 endurance, intelligence and as trappy drivers, the Morgans have 

 no equals. To handle six or eight horses on a stage-coach over 

 hills — without accident — looks to me wonderful now, for brakes 

 were not known in those days. I sometimes think it could not 

 have been done without the Morgan horses, for their superior in- 

 telligence was often displayed in cases of danger — like running on 

 icy, sidling roads, where every tug was needed, and the horses 

 on the run, to prevent the coach from falling off the bank ! I 

 have often done this and seen others do it, and accidents were 

 few. These horses seemed to know what was wanted and under- 

 stood the danger as well as the driver. It was sometimes no easy 

 matter to carry the mails through blinding sleet and heavy drifts, 

 but I never had a Morgan horse look back to refuse me. They 

 always faced the blast. If a "double trip had to be made the 

 Morgans always did it and the long-jointed, over- reaching, in- 

 terfering span of some other breed was kept in the barn. 



Yours, 

 J. C. Cremer, Hanover, N. H. 

 American Horse Breeder, 1892. 



