JOHN A. GOLDSMITH IN THE SULKY. 



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JOHN A. GOLDSMITH IN THE SULKY. 



Then John Alden, spake and related the wondrous adventure. 



Longfellow. 



While James and his father were off in the big 

 circuit with Driver and Alley, John Alden took up 

 Oscar and Clara Morris and started them at Corn- 

 wall, where the former trotted second to Vivandiere, 

 and the latter was also second to the Thorndale mare, 

 Nelly Ely. He was not so fortunate in his next 

 starts, at Middletown, as Clara Morris was twice un- 

 placed to the George Wilkes mare, Prospect Maid, 

 driven by Charles Green, and the chestnut gelding, 

 Sam, by Perkins' Morrill, put Mountaineer behind the 

 money. John started Edgar at Amenia and finished 



