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in front of the boiler doors. On the inside of the track, some five 

 feet above the coal heap, was a plank just wide enough for a horse 

 to stand iipon while the cars were run by him and dumped before 

 the further boiler. To see him drag in the heavy load and, with- 

 out word from the driver, step aside upon the narrow bridge out 

 of the way of the cars was enough to cause one to form a higher 

 opinion of man's most faithful servant. On cold, stormy days in 

 winter his warm perch on the plank was so much more to his liking 

 than the outside air that in the lulls of the work it was customary 

 to allow him to stay inside. The glare from the open furnace 

 doors so near, the roar of the escaping steam when the boilers blew 

 off were not enough to disturb his period of rest. It was interest- 

 ing to see him handle a loaded freight car. The magnificent ex- 

 hibition of strength to start the ponderous load along the rails, and 

 the nicely applied and steady pull to barely keep the car in motion 

 afterwards was but another evidence of his unusual intelligence. 

 In common with some of the other horses, Doctor soon learned 

 the meaning of the noon whistle, and the hungriest man in the crew 

 was not more averse to working over time than was he. 



Doctor has passed to his well-earned rest. A busy life he had, 

 crowded with hard tasks well performed. He was worthy of the 

 honor we bestowed upon him. His picture has interested many a 

 horse owner in Bickmore's Gall Cure ; has been seen and recog- 

 nized by thousands in other lands who can not read these words, 

 but who can and do remember " The Old Gray Horse at Work." 



We revere Doctor's memory. 



The American Trotter 



The standard trotting horse of America is essentially the product 

 of American notions and of conditions developed by American 



" One of my customers has just cured his horse of a stick fost. After 

 using other cures I induced him to try ^ickmore 's. Inside of ten days the 

 horse was well ; worked him continually. 



E. T). Baum, 326 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, U^. Y. " 



