THE HOUSE. 



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A distinguished judge of horses in Vermont, quoted by Randall 

 in his Introduction to Youatt on the Horse, says : 



"They [the Morgans] are good for an hour's drive for short 

 stages. They are good to run around town with. They are 

 good in the light pleasure-wagon prompt, lively (not spirited), 

 and 'trappy.' There is no question among those who have 

 had fair opportunities of comparing the Morgans with horses 

 of purer blood and descended from different stocks, in regard to 

 the relative position of the Morgan. He is, as he exists at the 

 present day, inferior in size, speed, and bottom in fact, in all 

 those qualities necessary to the performance of ' great deeds' 



Fig. 2. 



SlII-.KMAN MORGAN. 



on the road or the farm, to the descendants of Messenger, Du- 

 roc, imported Magnum Bonum, and many other horses of de- 

 served celebrity." 



Sherman Morgan, whose portrait we are permitted to copy 

 from Linsley's "Morgan Horse," was foaled in 1835, the prop- 

 erty of Moses Cook, of Campton, N. H. Sired by Sherman, g 

 sire, Justin ^forgan. The pedigree of the dam not fully estab- 

 lished, but conceded to have been a very fine animal, and said to 



