PILOT 2?I 



Mrs. Joseph Dansereau, born in 1816 and married in 1833, said : "The 

 pacer was sold to an American about fifty-eight years ago or more. It was 

 before I was married, I should judge about three years. He was black, not 

 very large, awful hard-bitted. The liveryman in Montreal where my hus- 

 band's father put him up thought he made up about his pulling, and under- 

 took to drive him, but gave it up and did not dare to try again. The horse 

 was about five years old when sold. Chicouagne would not sell this horse to 

 M. Dansereau for some reason, so Joseph got some one to buy the horse for 

 him. I lived at Contre-Cceur and used to see this pacer driven by before I 

 was married. My husband had the chestnut horse and Pappillon when I 

 married him, and afterwards had another black horse he called Pappillon. 

 Louis Dansereau had horses at the same time. 



" I remember the black stallion that M. La Bonte had when I was a little 

 girl. I have ridden to school with him. I do not know what horse was sire 

 of the black puller sold at Montreal, but know that my husband said they 

 had a colt by the La Bonte Horse that got excellent stock. 



" My husband was called Joseph. He was a son of Joseph, also called 

 Ouillett, a nephew of Louis, and was born in 1812 or 1813. My father-in- 

 law raised the Bistardo Horse from stock that he had, and sold it when about 

 five years old, before I was married. He bred another horse, called Ardent, 

 that died when he owned him. 



"My husband's father was called Joseph (as well as Ouillett), and he 

 owned the pulling horse ; he bought the horse of Andre Chicouagne of Ver- 

 cheres. Chicouagne bought him when one or two years old of Louis Danse- 

 reau, and paid one hundred dollars for him ; he brought the horse to Joseph 

 Dansereau to keep. My father-in-law (Joseph Dansereau) sold the horse 

 three years before I was married. He could not handle him very well, the 

 horse pulled so hard. 



" My husband and father-in-law said that La Bonte had a very nice horse, 

 and that they had a very fine bay or coffee-colored horse by this horse, that 

 got a number of very fast pacers and trotters. I saw the first black horse 

 that La Bonte had; it was of medium height, well-built; a pretty horse (un 

 joli cheval] , a trotter. He used to take me to school with him when I was 

 about ten years old. I was born August i3th, 1816". 



In the fall of 1892 it was thought best to have the most important of 

 the above witnesses again interviewed, especially Mr. Dupuis, and this was 

 done by Philip B. Stewart, with the following results : Louis Dupuis, inter- 

 viewed on December 2d, 1892, said: "I was nine years old when my 

 mother married Louis Dansereau. He had then a stallion ' black as a sloe ', 

 with an immense neck ; I have never seen so large a neck since. He was a 

 big, heavy horse, not fast, but a good road horse, with beautiful legs and feet, 

 very big but straight. He was too high-spirited for a work horse. Louis' 

 father bred the horse, and Louis took a shine to him, so his father told him 

 he could have him if he would take him and take care of him. Louis was 

 twenty-four when he was married and the horse was given to him at that 

 time. He sold him after two years. I was very fond of horses at this age, 



