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have found the same form, the same constitution, the same disposition, the 

 same general character. I see horses every day with perhaps a thirty-second 

 part of the blood of Justin Morgan, but there it is, still predominating ; there is 

 the Morgan still so plainly seen that he who runs may read. Every close ob- 

 server, every discerning judge of horses I meet, be he an admirer or a des- 

 piser of the Morgan, always admits this wonderful tendency of his blood". 



John H. Wallace, whose superior abilities eminently qualified him for 

 judging, has said in his Monthly : " In the relations, duties and pleasures 

 of the road and family horse, the Morgan has never had his equal in this 

 country, no difference what the blood". 



In a recent letter to us S. W. Parlin, the accomplished editor of the 

 "American Horse Breeder", a candid and highly qualified judge, writes : "I 

 have always admired the Morgans. I believe that no family of horses has 

 ever been produced, which possessed in a high degree so many of the valua- 

 ble qualities which go to make up an ideal gentleman's roadster, a family or 

 all-purpose animal, as the family of horses founded by Justin Morgan". 



President Benjamin Harrison attended the meeting of the Vermont as- 

 sociation of Road and Trotting Horse Breeders at White River Junction in 

 1891, and, in the course of his remarks on that occasion, said : " I understand 

 that it was so arranged that after I had seen the flower of manhood and 

 womanhood of Vermont, I should be given an exhibition of the next grade 

 in intelligence and worth in the State your good horses. I had recently, 

 through the intervention of my secretary of war, the privilege of coming into 

 possession of a pair of Vermont horses. They are all I could wish for, and, 

 as I said the othei day at the little village from which they came, they are of 

 good Morgan stock, of which some one has said that their great characteris- 

 tic is that they enter into consultation with the driver whenever there is any 

 difficulty". 



Such testimonials might be continued indefinitely, but we will close here 

 with one clipped from a current issue (Christmas, 1892) of "The American 

 Horse Breeder" : 



Editor American Horse Breeder : I am an old man, eighty-three years 

 this month, and seeing the article in your last issue in praise of the Morgan 

 horse, I want to add a word out of gratitude for their noble service done me 

 as stage proprietor on the fourth New Hampshire turnpike, as liveryman and 

 farmer. 



I saw old Bulrush as he passed through Hanover to Walpole, N. H., 

 where he died. Have seen the Green Mountain and the Sherman horse on 

 the parade ground, and have never seen such horses since. 



For endurance, intelligence and as trappy drivers the Morgans have no 

 equal. To handle six or eight horses on a stage coach over our hills without ac- 

 cident looks to me now as wonderful, for brakes were not known in those 

 days. I sometimes think it could not have been done without the Morgan 

 horses, for their superior intelligence was often shown in cases of danger, like 

 running on icy, sideling road, where every tug was needed, and the horses on 

 the run to prevent the coach from sliding off a bank I have often done this, 

 and seen others do it, and the accidents were few. 



These horses seemed to know what was wanted, and understood the 



- danger as well as the drivers. It was sometimes no easy matter to carry the 



mails through blinding sleet and heavy drifts, but I never had a Morgan horse 



