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firm but not compressed, and chin round and finished 

 when shaved so that one can see it. In a word., a union 

 of intellectual, benevolent and fearless expression, with 

 good deportment, and about one hundred and eighty-five 

 pounds as an average weight, make him rather a prepos- 

 sessing figure to look at. 



In youth he was remarkably spry. His frowns and 

 gestures were such, when the lion within was aroused by 

 ill-treatment, that but few men cared to cross his path a 

 second time. But this has been overbalanced since by 

 cultivation of the mind and learning to govern his pas- 

 sions, though he, like most of his race, is unwilling to 

 brook an insult without a proper resentment. We always 

 find in those possessed of the finer feelings of our nature, 

 the opposite qualities of mind, especially when harrowed 

 up to a pitch that is no longer endurable; for, without 

 this principle we would be but little elevated above the 

 brute creation. 



In order to do him justice, as well as the public, touch- 

 ing his knowledge of the horse, and capacity to govern 

 him, it will be necessary to go back some forty years at 

 least, for even in boyhood he is said to have exhibited 

 an intense fondness for horses, and remarkable aptitude 

 for breaking and training them after the old fashioned 

 way; and when but a lad of some dozen years, he would 

 drive or ride horses which had foiled their masters; and 

 I have known him many a time when on the road in com- 

 pany with others w^hose horses bothered them so they 

 could not make them straighten their traces in some bad 

 place, or up a hill, when, after driving his own safely 



