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attends the modest course of every-day life, rather than in the lus- 

 tre gained from its victories upon the trotting turf. 



A little additional information of interest and value concerning 

 Bulrush Morgan has come to us from several parties who knew him 

 intimately. Mr. J. B. Davis, born 1812, a prominent farmer and 

 skilled horseman of Barnard, Vermont, which town he has repeatedly 

 represented in the State legislature, says: ''Bulrush was kept at 

 Williamstown, Vermont, where my father lived. He was a blood bay, 

 with black mane and tail. Old Bulrush was a trotter; would pass 

 for a trotter if alive now. I have often seen him ridden up the street. 

 He would trot and go like a dart. He was a bold-looking horse, a 

 stout-built horse, very strong forward, with full tail and very heavy 

 mane. He had a very large neck, well put on ; a handsome-shaped 

 neck. I used to take a good many horses down the river to Hart- 

 ford and Springfield. The Bulrush Morgan sired a very good and 

 even lot of horses, sound, smart and speedy. I think, as a race, 

 they were faster than the VVoodburys, though Woodbury sired some 

 fast ones". 



John Woodbury, in his letter to Mr. Kidder, before quoted, says : 



" Sherman was dark chestnut ; his dam large bay, rather flat- 

 ribbed and inclined to a racking gait a fast going beast. Bulrush, 

 dark bay, inclined to brown ; his dam large size, French blooded, 

 black, rather flat-ribbed and large-limbed ; low carriage. Revenge 

 resembled, in form and color, the Bulrush ; I know nothing of the 

 dam". 



Mr. Robinson, Chelsea, Vermont, born at Williamstown, Ver- 

 mont, 1808, says: "Old Bulrush came to Williamstown and did 

 business there. He was a chunked, monstrous strong built, low, 

 powerful horse. Martin used to ride him on parade. I went to 

 learn the blacksmith trade when I was fifteen years old ; he came the 

 next year. I think Densmore, who owned him at Chelsea, had a 

 partner at Brookfield. I came here in 1831. The old Morgan died 

 on the farm of Clifford Bean". 



Judge Lynn of Williamstown, Vermont, says: " The first Mor- 

 gan horse owned here was Bulrush, from Chelsea, owned by Mr. 

 Densmore ; a low, dark horse, fourteen and a half hands, nine hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds; and a smart trotter". 



Mr. Linsley states that the Shermans are most numerous in that 

 part of Vermont between Newbury and the Canada line, in the neigh- 

 boring parts of New Hampshire, about Brownington, Derby, and 

 in Addison county, Vermont, and in Stanstead, Canada. 



