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wine. Hebert sold him when twelve years old to an American, for one hun- 

 dred dollars ; the first horse that sold for that price here". 



M. Duhamel, St. Ours, born 1829, said: "My father was born in 

 1791, married in 1819, and died 1848. He had a handsome black trotting 

 stallion that he called Pappillon and sold the year before he was married. I 

 think this horse was connected with the Dansereaus, but do not know how. 

 An uncle of mine had a black and a gray stallion that paced very fast. 

 This was later. A daughter of his lives four miles from here. Uncle's stal- 

 lions were of the same blood as the Dansereaus " . 



Madam Pierre Chapdelaine, born 1808, daughter of Jean Baptiste Du- 

 hamel, and a woman of large means, very noted for her business capacity, 

 and a remarkably intelligent witness, said : " Father had a black and a 

 gray; the first was a black. I am now over eighty-three. I was nine or ten, 

 think not less than ten, when the first horse was born, a good horse, a pretty 

 horse ( un beau cheval, un joli cheval). He had a gray stallion afterwards. 

 He sold this black one to Charlete of St. Ours, who sold to Allaire. He was 

 six or seven years old when sold to Allaire. He was about as big as your 

 gray horse [Squirrel, fifteen hands high, nine hundred and fifty pounds] : 

 dam, black, not quite as large, a fast pacer, which he bought when a little 

 colt of Pappillon of St. Ours, who raised her. She was five or six years old 

 when the horse was born. I do not remember the breed of the horse or the 

 mare. The gray horse was only a little younger, a year or so ; was sold to 

 an American when seven or eight years old. He paced fast and trotted. 

 The gray was called Caesar ; the black, Carillon. The dam of the gray was 

 the same as of the black. I do not remember any other fast pacer. Father 

 had the best ; they had just commenced to race then and father's were the 

 best. They raced the black and the gray together on the river St. Charles, 

 not on the St. Lawrence. I heard of no other races. Colts were raised 

 from these horses when they were very young. I remember that Louis Dan- 

 sereau of Vercheres bred to them. Baptiste Duhamel, a half brother of 

 mine, about my age, lives in Manitoba". 



Pierre Mandeville, born 1797, said : "I was twenty-four or five years 

 old when I remember the black horse of Duhamel. He was a fast pacer, 

 un joli cheval. I knew Gascon La Rocque, but do not remember his horse. 

 There were not many pacers when I was a boy. Baptiste Lebrun had a 

 mare, and a man named Gravelin had a horse. I do not remember any fast 

 pacers before Duhamel's except these. Gravelin's horse was a pacer, gray, and 

 before the Duhamel horses. I was married when twenty-eight years old. 

 Gravelin had his horse before I married. He was larger than the Duhamel 

 horses ". 



M. Berthier Lavine, Joliette, Province of Quebec, said : " The Dan- 

 sereau horses that I knew about thirty years ago had dapples on their hips 

 and elsewhere ; when chestnut they were spotted with black". 



A gentleman of St. Ours, name not remembered, born 1816, said : 

 "Allaire bought the horse of Duhamel about sixty years ago and sold him 

 to Recollet of Sorel. He was from a horse owned by Gravelin. Dansereau 



