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breed and bred at St. Mary. This was in 1851, I think. His sire was owned 

 by La Pierre of St. Rose, and was a pacer. The St. Lawrences you have to 

 whip; the Black Hawks are blooded and you don't have to whip them". 



Between 1889 and 1892 we made several more trips to Canada and 

 obtained the following information : 



Jean Baptiste La Rose of Vercheres, Province of Quebec, a very bright 

 and well-preserved old gentleman, born December 8th, 1804, said : "Joseph 

 Dansereau took a black pacing stallion that he had to Montreal, when five or 

 six years old, and sold it, I think to an American, for one hundred and fifty 

 dollars. I think he was all black. He was bred by Louis Dansereau, who 

 sold him when about eighteen months old to A. Chicouagne, and he sold him 

 to Joseph Dansereau. This stallion was a very fast pacer, but pulled very 

 hard, so that it took two men to drive him. 



" The first fast horses here were owned by the Dansereaus ; the next were 

 of the same family of horses and owned by Prive. This black stallion men- 

 tioned above was the first horse I knew to be sold from here. I think I was 

 about twenty when it was sold. I was a farmer and lived in Vercheres about 

 a mile from Joseph Dansereau. I remember that M. La Bonte had a black 

 stallion when I was a boy, and I remember when about fifteen of seeing a 

 very good black pacing mare of Louis Dansereau. I do not remember 

 where this mare came from, but remember there was another black mare from 

 this one ". 



In a later interview, in June, 1891, M. La Rose said : " It is seventy-six 

 years ago (1815) that the oldest black mare of Louis Dausereau was bred. 

 I think I was eleven years. I took my first communion seventy-three or 

 seventy-four years ago, about the year the church was burned ; the next year 

 she had the black filly". 



At still another interview M. La Rose said : " I think the first colt Louis 

 Dansereau bred was the one Joseph DansereaVi had. Dansereau sold this colt, 

 a nice-looking pacer, to Andrew Chicouagne and he to Joseph Dansereau, over 

 sixty years ago. I was about eighteen when Louis sold this horse, then 

 a year old, to Chicouagne, who sold it when two and a half years old to 

 Joseph Dansereau, and he sold it in Montreal when five or six years old. 



"Clement Dansereau had four horses, one of which had white legs behind 

 and a white face. They all came from the first one that was sold at Mon- 

 treal. M. La Bonte" was well off and had a farm at Jean Baptiste, and another 

 at St. Hyacinthe. He was quite a horse trader. I do not know whether the 

 Joseph Dansereau horse was sold to a Frenchman or an American at Montreal. 

 The third black stallion Dansereau had was Corbeau. He sold him when ten 

 or twelve to a man named Bistardo, that kept a store at St. Ours, twelve miles 

 from here. He was taller, heavier and larger than the one that pulled, very 

 strong, a pacer and broken to trot. There was about four years difference 

 in their ages. Dansereau raised many more, and sold one mare for six hun- 

 dred dollars. 



"The first stallion Prive" had was Petit Coq. Petit Coq got Bal- 

 loon. Xavier Dansereau had Commis, a black trotter with star, fifteen and 



