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soon found a customer for my place, and made a sale. 

 This mare brought ninety-six dollars. She had a very 

 bad name as being ugly and cross cr she would have 

 brought one hundred and fifty dolUirs. When she 

 was led out to sell I think I never saw a finer picture 

 of the horse kind. This mare never haJ a particle of 

 medicine, either internal or external, while I owned 

 her, although some said I doctored her up. It was all 

 done by kind treatment, good care, and feed, and 

 worked nearly all of the time; nicely haired over in a 

 little over a year. Look at her sores and scabs! I 

 did not cure this mare, I only removed the cause, and 

 I did that when I rescued her. 



In three months after I let Prince go I saw him. 

 He was so sore he could hardly go. They had shod 

 him and slaughtered him the first time. He had the 

 damnedest botch job done on him I ever saw ; toggled 

 up on corks at least an inch long, and nothing right 

 about the whole job. He soon changed hands. ISText 

 he was ten miles away in a team drawing heavy loads, 

 going good ; and I saw him since I have been writing 

 this book pass drav/ing a heavy express, going well. 

 I saw him only a few days ago standing before abuggj^ 

 in this place. I looked him all over. He looked 

 well ; his' feet looked well ; he stood well on his 

 legs ; did not appear to be sore ; it is about six years 

 since I first spread his feet. There are only a few as 

 hard cases as Prince was to get on his base. I never 

 had as hard a case in all of my work on the horse. 



I am going to sail out of this place west of the Mis- 

 souri Kiver on the plains. I stopped in Lincoln, ISTe- 

 braska. awhile. Of course my time was all spent 



