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result of education, for his owner was no horseman in 

 any sense of the term. It may be taken as conclusive, 

 then, that like so many of the inbred Messengers he 

 was a natural trotter. There can be no doubt that 

 while in Denny's hands he could trot better than three 

 minutes. 



"About 1834, Benjamin Tindall, a citizen 'of Phila- 

 delphia, who had been raised in Salem, N. J., and often 

 visited there, bought the 'Denny colt' from David 

 Denny for $120, and took him to Philadelphia and 

 offered him for sale. Daniel Jeffreys, the brickmaker, 

 who raised Andrew Jackson, looked at him, asked Tin- 

 dall his price, which was $225, and got permission to 

 try him before he would agree to take him. Jeffreys 

 rode him out on Broad street, with some of his friends 

 mounted on the best roadsters about the city, and 

 they, one after another, went at him, but not one of 

 them was able to put the new horse up to his speed. 

 Jeffreys was more than pleased, returned to the city, 

 sent his check by J. L. Hancock to Tindall for the 

 amount, $225, and took the horse to another stable. 

 He was then named Flying Dutchman, which was 

 soon reduced in usage to Dutchman. 



"Before Mr. Jeffreys had been happy in the posses- 

 sion of Dutchman for any great length of time, George 

 J. Weaver came into his stable one day, and, half jocu- 

 larly in manner, asked Jeffreys what he would take for 

 him. Without much thought, and supposing Weaver 

 was not in earnest, Jeffreys replied that he would take 

 $400, whereupon Weaver promptly responded that he 

 would take the horse. The transaction was regular 

 and there were plenty of witnesses to it. Jeffreys was 

 chagrined, but he could not go back on his word, and 



