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M. Dansereau, born 1829, son of Joseph Dansereau, said : " My father 

 raised a black horse with star, that he called Pappillon, which was larger than 

 the puller that he bought of Chicouagne, and three or four years younger. He 

 sold this horse when about four years old to Bistardo of St. Ours, who named 

 him Corbeau, and sold him some years after to an Irishman at Montreal. 

 Jerome Dansereau had a chestnut horse that he sold when about ten years 

 old". This Bistardo Horse, we 'think, was without doubt got by Pilot. 



M. Kidder, St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, always understood that 

 the Vercheres horses came originally from the United States. 



We again visited Vercheres, when Isaac Marchessault, born 1830, said : 

 " When I was a boy Louis Dansereau had two stallions at same time ; one 

 was black with a little white on hind leg. One of them went to Quebec. I 

 was ten or twelve when this horse was sold. The mother of both was a very 

 fast pacer that was sold when twenty-five years old to Robert L'Amoureux, 

 and then to Augustus Dussault of Contre-Cceur, who bred a colt from her 

 when she was twenty-six years old, a stallion, black, no white, sixteen hands 

 high, fast pacer, that was sold to an American". 



Francois La Croix, born 1819, said : "The first stallion that Louis Dan- 

 sereau bred was black. He raised many. They came from all over to buy 

 them. They were all racers and pacers. All the black stallions were from 

 the same mare, but I think from different horses. He had some stallions not 

 black, that I think were from other mares". 



In another interview, M. La Rose, Vercheres, said : " Dansereau's first 

 stallion was sold to Vassar. La Bonte's horse was black. I don't know where 

 he got him. The La Bonte Horse won several races, but the Le Duke Horse, 

 a white horse, used to often beat him. This Le Duke Horse was owned at 

 St. Jean Baptiste and speeded on the St. Lawrence. I think Le Duke sold 

 him about 1826. Dessaume had one of the Le Duke Horse's get. Louis 

 Dansereau had Commis, black. His old mare was a puller. Fiset got the 

 mare fifty years ago". 



M. Fiset of Contre-Cceur, born in 1830, said: "Louis Dansereau 

 traded with an American at Montreal for a black pacing mare which was the 

 grandmother of all those good horses. He raised a black pacing mare, say 

 fifteen hands high, from this old mare, and bred many stallions from this 

 last mare. All these colts that I knew about were black. He took the mare 

 once to Langevin of St. Marc, and once to a horse my father had, a bay 

 Canadian trotter. My father bought this second black mare when old for 

 fifty dollars, in foal at the time, and she brought a filly. My father, 

 whose name was Louis Fiset, raised another foal from her, and then sold 

 her to Robert L'Amoureux of Contre-Cceur : he raised a filly from her, then 

 sold her to Joseph Le Bossault, who also raised a filly from her. She was 

 now over twenty-five years old, and was sold again and died the nexi 

 winter at Contre-Coeur. I think my father bought her before I was Dorn. 

 I think Langevin of St. Marc bought the filly that my father bred 

 her. 



