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more perfectly to my mind the originals of those fiery, magnificent 

 coursers, the Greek ideals of the war horse, to be found on the Elgin 

 marbles, than I ever saw elsewhere. I called Charles Elliott, the 

 painter, and had Green Mountain Morgan put to his paces for his 

 inspection. Without a word from me, he made precisely the criti- 

 cism I have already done". 



Many sons of Green Mountain Morgan were sold to go to dif- 

 ferent parts of the country, and some of these we have been unable 

 to trace. Silas Hale in an interview we had with him in 1888 told us 

 that he had taken some twelve or fifteen West and sold them, but 

 he was very old and his records had been lost by fire. He could not 

 remember well either the parties of whom he bought or to whom he 

 sold. He said : " The first I bought in Vermont, twenty miles west 

 of Brattleboro, for two hundred and fifty dollars, a chestnut, fifteen 

 and a half hands, eleven hundred pounds ; six when I bought him ; 

 kept him a year, took him West and sold him to Greene & Co., 

 Davenport, Iowa. The next I bought for three hundred dollars in 

 a town where they made carriages, near Amherst, Massachusetts ; 

 sold him to a physician in Louisville, Kentucky, for one thousand 

 dollars. He was six years old, bay, fifteen hands high, one thousand 

 and fifty pounds ; his dam a great coarse mare. 



" I sold a horse for six hundred dollars to a Mr. Raymond, seventy 

 miles beyond Burlington, Iowa ; also let him have another ; one was 

 a bay, fifteen hands high, that I got in Massachusetts, south of where 

 I live. I sold another, a small chestnut called Tommy, to a Mr. 

 Greene, Davenport, Iowa; got him of Frank Templeton,Templeton, 

 Massachusetts. I sold another, a two-year-old, to a Mr. Smart in 

 Iowa, for five hundred dollars. He kept him till four, then swapped 

 him for a farm and sold the farm for three thousand dollars. I 

 bought a very good gray one of Col. Putnam of Orange, Massachu- 

 setts ; the dam was very smart. He went to Chicago, afterwards 

 to New Orleans and sold for five thousand dollars. I sold a three- 

 year-old colt for five hundred dollars to a doctor; he went to Nashua, 

 New Hampshire. Bought a good-sized chestnut colt of Elbridge 

 Twitchell of Athol for forty dollars, and sold him to go to Townsend 

 for two hundred dollars. Another fifteen-hand chestnut from a 

 Morgan dam I sold cheap, for three hundred dollars, and he went West. 

 I sold a colt four months old for four hundred dollars, that went to 

 Dubuque, Iowa. Think I sold one to go to Ohio, and one to Illinois. 

 I took three horses to Dayton, Ohio. 



"I bought the old horse when eight years old, and sold him at 

 twenty-one for two thousand dollars. I bought a bay colt of his in 



