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This filly was in my brother's possession until she was twenty-three or twenty- 

 four years old, and was then swapped. I think the second foal out of Louis' 

 mare was a filly, too, and went to Fiset. The third was a mare and went 

 to Le Mourier. The fourth was a stallion and went to Laboissiere, together 

 with the dam, and Laboissiere sold the dam to Baptiste Dussaume. The 

 mare then went back to Louis again. Louis then sold her to Craig of Mon- 

 treal. He had her not over six months and brought her back to Louis, tell- 

 ing him she was too strong for him. She was so strong that it took two men 

 to hold her. Louis then raised two stallions from her. The fourth was very 

 black, and at two years was sold to a man named Ross (or Rosque) of Mon- 

 treal, a boxer. This horse was very fast. Louis raised a stallion, black, not 

 very big, out of the old mare, which he sold to a Mr. Vassar of New York. 

 [Then comes the story of his killing by the shaft]. This horse was by the 

 Duhamel Horse. I am certain of this particular thing, because I remember 

 Duhamel told me he did not think the mare was in foal this time. This sire 

 was black, and a pretty one. I never was at DuhameFs house, and don't 

 know whether he had more than one stallion. I think the Vassar Horse was 

 ten years old when sold by Dansereau. The mare had no stallions before 

 him that I know of. He was the only colt that I know by the Duhamel 

 Horse, and out of this mare. I can't tell the year the Vassar Horse was born, 

 but it was after I was married. I was twenty-two, less six days, when mar- 

 ried, and became a widower thirteen years afterward. I was two years a 

 widower, and then married again, and at this second wedding my stepfather 

 came to me with the Vassar Horse (1835). It was several years after that 

 the horse was sold. I never knew of the La Bonte Horse being the father of 

 any of Louis' horses. I had seen pacing races before Dansereau's horses, 

 but the fast racing was after his horses". The old gentleman counts the 

 stallions out of the old mare, Jeanne d' Arc, over his fingers, as follows : " Cle- 

 ment Dansereau had one, Dussaume one, Vassar one, and there was, I am 

 sure, another which I think Louis kept". 



Eugene Dansereau, Vercheres, born 1832, interviewed October 22d, 

 1892, said : " I gave all my time to horses when I was young. Louis Dan- 

 sereau's first black stallion was raised by him. Its sire may have been the 

 La Bonte" Horse. The dam I think Louis raised himself. This was about 

 seventy years ago. There were two other stallions raised by Louis, but 

 whether out of the same dam I do not know. One of them had a white leg. 

 His stallions had no names ; were all sold and went to the States. I suppose 

 the other two were by the first horse of Louis. My grandfather told me these 

 things". 



In interview of December, 1892, Eugene Dansereau further said : " My 

 grandfather was Joseph Dansereau, a brother of Louis. I knew an 

 extraordinary mare owned by Louis. I have seen her. She died of old age 

 when twenty-four years old. I was about ten when I last remember her. She 

 was the mother of Louis' fast ones. She did not breed the last few years 

 of her life. She raised five or six colts to my knowledge, and two of these 

 were stallions. The second was a pacer which Clement, son of Louis, used 



