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wards known as Alexander's Abdallah, and her dam 

 what was called an Abdallah mare. She was in her 

 day a fine animal and, according to a correspondent of 

 the "Spirit of the Times," writing from Deckertown, N. 

 J., in 1871, could trot in about 2:40, and proved to be a 

 fine brood mare. She had six foals, all of which gave 

 greater promise when colts than Goldsmith Maid. 

 One of them, when coming four years old, repeatedly 

 trotted on a country road, a full mile, barefooted, 

 without a skip or break. They were all high-spirited 

 animals, and no fence was capable of confining them 

 to a certain field. If the spirit moved them, they 

 would spring over the stone walls like a deer, skim 

 along the neighboring fields, trampling down wheat 

 and corn, much to the consternation and despair of the 

 farmers, who, in turn, revenged, as well as amused 

 themselves, by setting their dogs on them and chas- 

 ing them like foxes all over the county. When they 

 got tired, they would return to their home very much 

 in the manner they had left it. This colt, referred to 

 above, in one of these almost daily tramps, ran against 

 a scythe suspended from an apple-tree, and cut its 

 head almost off. Another, equally as promising, was 

 kicked in the knee joint, and died from its effects ; a 

 third was gored by a bull, and a fourth met some 

 equally tragic fate, that disposed of it in as summary 

 a manner. A fifth was taken by General Kilpatrick 

 to Chili, and there sold to a gentleman for four thou- 

 sand in gold. This mare could dust anything in Sus- 

 sex County. 



Goldsmith Maid was the smallest of old Ab's foals. 

 What she lost in size, however, she made up in vicious- 

 ness. She wouldn't go in a plow or harrow, nor stay 



